'We hear, or read, of someone who was "a real saint: he never saw any harm in anyone and never spoke a word against anyone all his life". If this really is Christian saintliness then Jesus Christ was no saint. It is true that He taught men not to sit in judgement upon one another, but He never suggested that they should turn a blind eye to evil or pretend that other people were faultless. He Himself indulged no roseate visions of human nature: He "knew what was in man", as St. John tersely outs it. Nor can we imagine Him either using or advocating the invariable use of "loving" words. To speak the truth was obviously to Him more important than to make His hearers comfortable...'
JB Philips, Your God Is Too Small, p.27.
