“God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.”

“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”

“Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.”

“He has a passport," my classmates would whisper. "Quick, let's run before he judges us!”

“He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.”

“If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.”