Wednesday, October 14, 2009

the final flower and fruit of justice

Love must be regarded as the final flower and fruit of justice… however, when it is substituted for justice it degenerates into sentimentality and may become the accomplice of tyranny.


Reinhold Niebuhr as quoted in American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation by Jon Mecham. Random House. 2006. p.159

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