You saints need feel no anxiety; nor wonder how you can turn a crystal into a diamond. You must test a thing by the rules of its own place and time, and allow it whatever its worth may be. If you punish one, you will frighten many; this reproach will be in many mouths. Tuka says, My words are not foolish, no madman’s ravings.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 257
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents