A quickness in detecting evil

The habit of judging is so nearly incurable,
and its cure is such an almost interminable
process, that we must concentrate ourselves
for a long while on keeping it in check, and
this check is to be found in kind interpretations.
We must come to esteem very lightly our sharp
eye for evil, on which perhaps we once prided
ourselves as cleverness. We must look at our
talent for analysis of character as a dreadful
possibility of huge uncharitableness. We are
sure to continue to say clever things, so long
as we continue to indulge in this analysis;
and clever things are equally sure to be sharp
and acid. We must grow to something higher,
and something truer, than a quickness in detecting evil.
- Frederick W. Faber