I'm not sure you're right. I've known plenty of elders who do hurtful, hateful things. Maybe they just think about them more before they do them.
I don't know preachers. I don't think Faust likes to think about himself very often, and thinking about other people makes that easy. He never talks about himself. Have you noticed? I talk about myself all the time. I notice right away when other people don't do the same thing.