Love Men, Destroy Errors

Haec fratres, cum impigra mansuetudine agenda et pradicanda retinete: diligite homines, interficite errores: sine superbia de veritate praesumite, sine saevitia pro veritate certate. Orate pro eis quos redarguitis atque convincitis. Pro talibus enim propheta Deum deprecatur, dicens: Imple facies eorum ignominia, et quaerent nomen tuum, Domine. Quod quidem iam fecit Dominus, ut eorum facies ignominia Maximianistarum apertissime impleret: superest ut norint salubriter erubescere. Ita enim nomen Domini quaere poterunt, a quo perniciosissime aversi sunt, dum pro eo suum nomen extollunt. Vivatis et perseveretis in Christo, et multiplicemini, atque abundetis in charitate Dei, in invicem, et in omnes, dilectissimi fratres.  Sanctus Augustinus, Contra Litteras Petiliani, Liber I

These things, brethren, with untiring gentleness I would have you hold to in your actions and preaching: love men, destroy errors; take up the truth without pride; strive for the truth without cruelty. Pray for those whom you refute and convict. For such things the prophet entreats God, saying, 'Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O Lord.' 1 And this the Lord has done so already, filling the faces of the followers of Maximianus with shame publicly: it still remains that they learn how to blush healthily. Thus they will be able to seek the name of the Lord, from which they have turned away to their utter peril, while they exalt their own name for His. May you live and persevere in Christ, and be multiplied, and abound in the love of God and toward one another, and toward all, most beloved brethren. Saint Augustine of Hippo, Against the Letters of Petilian, Book 1 1 Ps 82.17