Sentences with phrase «between justice and mercy»

What is the difference between justice and mercy?

Nevertheless, the disturbance arises from an essentially Christian vision of human nature and the human condition that, while affirming their reconciliation in God, acknowledges the tension between justice and mercy in this world.

No contradiction between justice and mercy.

In practice, then, a delicate balance between justice and mercy must be maintained.

Not exact matches

The same equivalence between exercising justice and mercy and the knowledge of God is manifest in Jesus» vision of the judgment of the nations by the Son of Man (Matt.

Wisdom is writing of the human situation, and we must not suppose that if we agree with what he writes, we are assuming a schism between God's justice and his mercy.

The people who hold the «just war» principle have much to do between wars, not only teaching the criteria but also nurturing the virtues commensurate with the tradition — justice, temperance, patience, courage — through preaching and teaching, liturgy and works of mercy.

There is no conflict between the justice of God and the mercy of God; both spring out of His infinite love for His children.

Hence there is no real division between God's mercy and His justice.

They insisted upon it as an indivisible whole; He distinguished between essentials and non-essentials, singling out, in words which pointedly recalled a famous prophecy of the Old Testament, «justice, mercy and faith» as the «weightier matters of the Law».

There is a final separation of the good from the evil, however complex and mysterious the relation between mercy and justice may be.

This difference between divine and human justice makes necessary the secrecy of the confessional» what the penitent confesses is for God's tribunal of mercy alone, not for men.

Some highlights of this collection are Khaled Abou El Fadl's eloquent explication of the complexities and restraints behind implementation of the death penalty under Islamic law; an interesting intersection between Fadl's discussion of reticence in the use of the death penalty and David Novak's review of capital cases in Jewish tradition; Stanley Hauerwas's unequivocal claim that the cross is justice (negatively in terms of Jesus» execution according to human law and positively in terms of the ultimate meaning of the cross as mercy and forgiveness); and, conversely, the claim by Beth Wilkinson, prosecutor in the Timothy McVeigh case, that «Even as a Christian, I felt nothing for Mr. McVeigh.»

Has nothing to do with punishment, and everything to do with the balance between Perfect Justice and Perfect Mercy.