He lives three years with 12 fishermen, people of no education, without refinement or good breeding, and their want of manners did not anger Him; He never treats them with mortifying words, or an act calculated to give pain.
He suffers everything from them without making them suffer anything, without allowing to escape Him, with regard to even those whom He knew would deny Him, betray Him, or abandon Him, one word or one glance which would wound them.
He lives in the midst of them, less as their master than their servant, to teach us to be amiable even toward those who displease us by their character, by their wrong-headedness, of the vices of their heart.
And we who, in spite of all our faults, expect that others should be amiable toward us, by what right do we require that others should be without defects in order that we should be amiable towad them?
-- Hamon,
Meditations
