“I could have yelled, I could have screamed, I could have hit them…”
Is this an act of mercy? I don’t understand. This is the basic — this is a thought you should reject, this isn’t a thought you should be proud that you rejected. This is not an act of kindness offered.
This is not an act of mercy, this is you not being able to control yourself.
Sometimes people look at their inability to control themselves as an act of mercy—this is being cruel, this is the mind of the wicked.
—Fr. Mina Dimitri