“Jesus Christ had a most tender compassion for sinners who were sincerely humble and repentant for their sins. ‘I came for sinners,’ He said, ‘and not for the just,’ who trust in their own justice. The publican who stood far off, Mary Magdalene, the woman taken in adultery, and the Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob were all treated by Him with a kindness and tenderness that astonishes us.”

-Fr. Jean Nicolas Grou, The Spiritual Life