Scruples

[bernadette d]

Recently I have been reading on here about scruples and it made me think of Father Frederick William Faber's great hymn, "There's a wideness in God's mercy" The whole of which is (IMHO) worth a read, but especially:

But we make His love too narrow
By false limits of our own
And we magnify His strictness
With a zeal He will not own

For the love of God is broader
Than the measure of our mind
And the heart of the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind.