Schlossberg Shrewdness

Christian love seeks to help the person but refuses to elevate the problem by giving it ontological status and worth. It also avoids helping the weak as a means of causing harm to the strong. In this it heeds the apostle’s admonition that love “does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right” (1 Cor. 13:6).

From his Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture

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