We should know better

 "'For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all.' The entire discussion of judgment and grace in the Letter to the Romans is to drive home how total is our dependence on God's grace in Christ. If we draw a distinction between ourselves and others--even if the distinction is that we do and they do not trust God's grace in Christ--we diminish the radicality of our dependence on grace. We are saying that, at least with respect to our faith, we are different from them, we are somehow not under the same judgment." Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Death on a Friday Afternoon

For starters: the passage that this quotation starts with is Rom 11:32, and its context is St. Paul emphasizing that both Jews and Gentiles are under judgment. But the mercy of God in reconciling us to himself in Christ Jesus is for all. 

But the point of this has been nagging at me for a really long time now, as I watch my fellow believers cast judgment. Why, when God has bestowed on us such an incredible gift of grace, do we insist on futile efforts to justify ourselves in comparison with our brothers and sisters? We are instead to be vessels of grace for them, not on our own terms but by meeting others where they are and sharing the love of God with all.