We must not mistake frankness when it is actually rudeness. It is wrong to practice one virtue at the expense of another. When honesty flouts love, when candor outstrips sympathy, when earnestness threatens patience, we may be sure that there is a lack of balance in our inner life. We need something to coordinate faith and practice. And only love is equal to the task.
Love never expresses itself in an unloving manner.
Love does not fly into a temper tantrum. Love does not become frustrated, exasperated or defeated with those it loves. When we loose our tempers we loose everything. Kipling said that it was the test of a man if he could keep his head when everyone else was losing his and blaming it on him, and if, when he was hatcd, he did not give way to hating. The individual who is master of his temper can rise to be master of anything.