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“A good grape-picker, who eats the ripe grapes, will not start gathering unripe ones. A charitable and sensible mind takes careful note of whatever virtues it sees in anyone. But a fool looks for faults and defects. And of such it is said: ‘They have searched out iniquity and expired in the search.’
Do not condemn, even if you see with your eyes, for they are often deceived ”
— St. John of the Ladder, Ladder of Divine Ascent, Steps 10.16-17