Who has not discovered among poor and humble folk a strange and beautiful lenience, the lenience of a great compassion, towards those sins which in more artificial conditions of society are held to justify the most violent condemnation, and do indeed close the heart to pity?
"The Empire of Love"
W. J. Dawson
In poor men's huts beside the Sea of Galilee Jesus Himself had found love, love in all its divine daring, lenience, and magnanimity, and He knew that among people like these He would be understood.
"The Empire of Love"
W. J. Dawson
Would not a fatal lenience towards vice become the temper of society?
"The Empire of Love"
W. J. Dawson