“Be submissive to good, unbending to evil, gentle in generosity, untiring in love, just in all things.”
Columban (543-615) in a letter dated to the year 610 as recounted in The Quotable Saint ed. by R. E. Guiley (New York, 2002) 152.
Are you so quick to run to the aid people that sometimes you run over them? That’s one of my many vices. God help us be gentle in generosity today and everyday.