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We hear lots today about mercy and being merciful. Here is what Bishop Sheen had to say about mercy. Unfortunately what we mostly have today is the "feather-bed for those who fall from justice" variety of mercy.
We hear lots today about mercy and being merciful. Here is what Bishop Sheen had to say about mercy. Unfortunately what we mostly have today is the "feather-bed for those who fall from justice" variety of mercy.
"If mercy meant the forgiveness of all faults without retribution and without justice, it would end in a multiplication of wrongs. Mercy is for those who will not abuse it, and no man will abuse it who already started to make the wrong right, as justice demands. What some today call mercy is not mercy at all, but a feather-bed for those who fall from justice; and thus they multiply guilt and evil by supplying such mattresses. To become the object of mercy is not the same as to got scot-free, for as the word of God says: “Whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth.”
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