Faults, A Looking-glass for – Charles Spurgeon

YOU can see great faults in others; but, my dear brother, be sure to look in the looking-glass every morning, and you will see quite as many faults, or else your eyes are weak. If that looking-glass were to show you your own heart you would never dare look again, I fear you would even break the glass. Old John Berridge, as odd as he was good, had a number of pictures of different ministers round his room, and he had a looking-glass in a frame to match. He would often take his friend into the room and say, “That is Calvin, that is John Bunyan,” and when he took him up to the looking-glass he would add, “and that is the devil.” “Why,” the friend would say, “it is myself!” “Ah,” said he, “there is a devil in us all.” Being so imperfect, we ought not to condemn.