“We cannot avoid them, and when we see them, we do not have the right to be indifferent. Woe to us, if by our silence or inertia the wicked become obdurate in their malice and eventually triumph.” “It is true, we cannot be indifferent in the face of evil or error,” resumed Francis, “but we should be neither irritated nor dismayed by it. Such dismay and irritation will only restrict the charity within us or in others. Rather must we learn to see evil and error as God sees them. It is precisely that which is so difficult. Where we would tend to see an error to be condemned and to be punished, God sees, from the very start, a suffering to be alleviated.”