If God doesn't give up on us, we had better not despair of ourselves. We can always do better--especially if we remember the opposite of despair is not optimism but hope. Hope criticizes what is, hopelessness rationalizes it. Hope resists, hopelessness adapts. But...
I love America more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. from Notes of a Native Son
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn--and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.