His justice is the love that gives to each one of His creatures the gi…

Thomas Merton
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His justice is the love that gives to each one of His creatures the gifts that His mercy has previously decreed. And His mercy is His love, doing justice to its own exigencies, and renewing the gift which we had failed to accept. ✨ Thomas Merton (2002). No Man Is an Island, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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