A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
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It is an old adage, 'All is fair in love as in war,' but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
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Colossians 3:13:
Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
(NIV)
Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference (a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive].
(AMP)
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
(KJV)
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Matthew 5:23:
'Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you,'
(NIV)
So if when you are offering your gift at the altar you there remember that your brother has any [grievance] against you,
(AMP)
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
(KJV)
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