Many great saints and mystics were either borderline or full-blown universalists. This means that they believed that there is universal salvation.
Their reason for believing this is not the perennially popular (and bad!) argument: ‘If God is all-loving and merciful, how can He send anyone to hell?’
Rather, they argue from the power of God’s love: ‘God wishes the salvation of everyone and is, ultimately, powerful enough to bring it about.
If we believe in the power of love to heal and to create freely its own response, surely God’s perfect love will eventually bring even the most hardened sinner to accept it. If human love, weak and imperfect as it is, can melt hard hearts, won’t perfect love eventually penetrate every kind of resistance?
--Fr. Ron Rolheiser OMI
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