“The preaching of law and judgment may be even more necessary than usual at a time when all strong ideas are fading away, when feeling and character are getting ever more lax, and when God’s mercy is assured of a warm welcome, provided that it is well divorced from his holiness. This is a fatal error that compromises mercy no less than holiness, for mercy assumes and is a measure of divine holiness, just as deliverance assumes and is a measure of man’s peril. Whatever the case, God, like Jesus Christ, cannot be “divided” (1 Corinthians 1:13). We must either take him as he is or leave him alone.”
“Great God, God of justice, God of mercy, spare us! But whether you
spare or whether you strike, cause us to be instructed so that we might
be converted and in no wise perish! (see Luke 13:1-5)"
— Adolphe Monod, an undivided love: loving and living for Christ
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