Brothers, have no fear of men’s sin.  Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth …

At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love.  Always decide to use humble love.  If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.  Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it …

If the evil-doing of men moves you to indignation and overwhelming distress, even to a desire for vengeance on the evil-doers, shun above all things that feeling.  Go at once and seek suffering for yourself, as though you were yourself guilty of that wrong.  Accept that suffering and bear it and your heart will find comfort, and you will understand that you too are guilty … 

           —  Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov