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Plank-eye
If we are quick to perceive blemishes and faults in others, the probability is that we have far greater blemishes and faults in ourselves. This truth ought to make us exceedingly careful in our judgments, and exceedingly modest in our expressions of censure — for we are really telling the world our own faults!
It is wiser, as well as more in accordance with the spirit of Christ, for us to find lovely things in others, and to be silent regarding their faults.
Nagging is not a means of grace . There is a "more excellent way," the way of love. It is better, when we wish to correct faults in others — to be careful to let them see in us, in strong contrast, the virtue, the excellence — opposite to the defect we see in them.
It is the habit of a certain good man, if one of his family or friends mispronounces a word in his hearing, never pedantically to correct the error — but at some early opportunity to find occasion to use the same word, giving it the correct pronunciation. Something like this is wise in helping others out of their faults of character or conduct.
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." Matthew 7:3-5