“It is wretched and restrictive to impose upon the world only ones
own version of the truth. Every fanatic believes that he is fighting for
God or something higher when he "fights for the truth." This is a lie.
When kindness is lost, he loses that which he is fighting for. Indeed,
the shameful conditions that we so often see in a broken world can
only find healing and mercy through kindness. The fanatic does not
have kindness in mind but focuses on what is wrong -and often justi-
fiably so! And yet, without kindness, his truth becomes an idol. God
is truth, but the truth is not God. The fanatic believes that he has the
truth at his command, but he forgets that God is not at our disposal!”
Martin Schleske