compassion for sinners

I think this one starts at home. I am a sinner. I admonish myself. And yet I have compassion on myself too. I admonish myself because I can detect that there are digressions, sins and failings. It's an act of the intellect to detect them. An act of the will (and grace) to be able to be mad at myself for them. But it is an act of the heart to have compassion. Not that there are multiple personalities. But there are multiple faculties which can produce multiple movements. Nor are they acting alone. I can intellectually recognize that I'm able to be loved - the Bible and tradition are full of such information. Likewise I can admonish with the consent of my heart - it is with a desire for me to improve. So also when I go to admonish the other sinners I can do so with a desire that they be better. Even with the compassion that the admonishment be somewhat painful for me - to go to them like the brother sinner that I am is a small humiliation. To be with them in humiliation for the sake of their ultimate improvement is an expression of compassion.