Q. But how can a liableness to mistake consist with perfect love? Is not a person who is perfected in love every moment under its influence? And can any mistake flow from pure love?
A. I answer (1) Many mistakes may consist with pure love. (2) Some may accidentally flow from it: I mean, love itself may incline us to mistake. The pure love of our neighbor, springing from the love of God, thinks no evil, believes and hopes all things. Now, this very temper, unsuspicious, ready to believe and hope the best of all people, may occasion our thinking some people better than they really are. Here, then, is a manifest mistake, accidentally flowing from pure love.
~ John Wesley (The Character of a Methodist, ¶19)
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