We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be made new…Sometimes sorrow is easier than joy, and despair more comforting that hope.

We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be made new…Sometimes sorrow is easier than joy, and despair more comforting that hope.

– Anthony M. Esolen –

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