Daily Inspiration Quote by Lawrence G. Lovasik

The line smuggles a moral corrective into a bit of everyday courtroom language. “Charged” turns our private judgments into a prosecution: we build cases, we collect evidence, we hand down sentences in conversation and in our heads. Lovasik, writing as a clergyman, is less interested in scolding you for judging than in exposing how lopsided most judgments are. We don’t merely notice faults; we “charge” them, as if other people owe us an accounting. The remedy is equally procedural: “credit” virtues, like balancing a ledger. The spiritual subtext is clear without being preachy: mercy isn’t a mood, it’s a practice of attention.

The clever pressure point is the word “probably.” He doesn’t promise sainthood or instant harmony; he offers a statistical nudge. If you’re fairer with the books, your emotional math changes. “Like everybody” is hyperbole, but purposeful hyperbole: it reveals how much of our dislike is manufactured by selective noticing. We remember the betrayal, forget the generosity; we recall the irritating habit, erase the resilience that keeps someone going.

Contextually, this sits squarely in a pastoral tradition that treats charity not as softness but as realism. People are composites. A culture that rewards hot takes and moral sorting trains us to litigate character. Lovasik’s intent is to interrupt that reflex: not to deny faults, but to insist they’re not the whole story, and that we become harsher people when we pretend they are.