Portrait of the Kingdom
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“If you want justice and nothing but justice, you will inevitably get injustice. If you want justice without injustice, you must want love. A world of perfect justice is a world of love. It is a world with no ‘rules,’ in which everyone does what he or she pleases and all are pleased by what everyone does; a world of no ‘rights’ because there are no wrongs from which to be protected; a world of no ‘legitimate entitlements’ because everything is given and nothing withheld; a world with no ‘equality’ because all differences are loved in their own appropriate way; a world in which ‘desert’ plays no role because all actions stem from super-abundant grace…The blindfold would be taken from the eyes of Justitia and she would delight in whatever she saw; she would lay aside the scales because she would not need to weigh and compare anything; she would drop her sword because there would be nothing to police.”
~ Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace
as quoted by Scot McKnight in Embracing Grace p169.
