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All in Good Faith
In the company of saints and holy people Yours and mine are no more Only Thine, O Lord. No one an enemy, none a stranger As friends we get on with each other. What the Lord wills is good. This wisdom is received in blessing from saints The One Lord is with us all.
(Adi Granth)
Think not of the faults of others, of what they have done or not done. Think rather of your own sins, of things you have done or not done.
(Dhammapada)
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, 'Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye'; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
(The New Testament)
Beware lest ye offend the feelings of anyone, or sadden the heart of any person, or move the tongue in reproach of, and finding fault with anybody. Beware, beware that any one rebuke or reproach a soul, though he may be an ill-wisher or an ill-doer.
(Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Baha)
Let none deceive another, Or despise any being in any state. Let none through anger or ill-will Wish harm upon another. Even as a mother protects with her life Her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart Should one cherish all living beings: Radiating kindness over the entire world: Spreading upwards to the skies, And downwards to the depths: Outwards and unbounded, Freed from hatred and ill-will. Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down Free from drowsiness, One should sustain this recollection.
(Sutta-Nipata)
O God, help us not to condemn or oppose what we do not understand.
(William Penn)
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