#justice – @tail-feathers on Tumblr

😎 The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises.

All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice--and so the pain--of the cross.

... John R. W. Stott (1921-2011)

#cqod #peacemaking #justice #appeasement #forgiveness

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C-7 Painting by OSCAR ALVAREZ

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“The true cowboy is a terror to evildoers of all kinds.”

-John Henry Sullivan, Life and Adventures of the Genuine Cowboy (1896)

A Terror to Evildoers of All Kinds: More Bryan Lynchings from 1874

Whatever comes to pass over the next weeks, months, years - we can be confident that it will NOT be anything like the Global Set’s plans. And we can be confident that - as individuals - THEIR fate, as servants of purposive evil, will be horrible (horrible, even by their own depraved standards).

#cowboys #justice #lynching #myths

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Public Penance for Wayward Clerics? - Crisis Magazine

My first visit to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres was in 1968. I was 15-years-old and knew little about what I was looking at—thou

Crisis Magazine

A medieval ritual ripe for revival.

#roman catholic #penance #justice

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It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

ROBERT SOUTHEY

#ROBERT SOUTHEY #charity #justice #judgment