Monday, May 26, 2014

There is no justice in love



There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality.  It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal.  So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?

Love is holy because it is like grace – the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

--Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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