Mercy and truth are met together;
righteousness and peace have kissed each other
In Christ alone do righteousness and peace enjoy oneness without compromise and mercy and truth make friendly.
"Torquemada tortured people physically for the sake of moral truth. Zola tortured people morally for the sake of physical truth. But in Torquemada's time there was at least a system that could to some extent make righteousness and peace kiss each other. Now they do not even bow." - G.K Chesterton, Orthodoxy, ch 3: the suicide of thought
In the world, there is either righteousness or peace... justice or mercy. There are those who are adamantly for the one and some who are diametrically opposed to the other. If you love mercy, you cry down those who insist upon justice. If you love justice, you mock those bleeding-heart bags of mercy down the block.
But in God, justice and mercy are married; whereas in the world, they don't even pay respect to the other. They dismiss each other as barricades. The other is seen as the reason their cause is kept from full expression. The mercy-mongers limit justice and the justice-thumpers muzzle mercy. Outside of God, mercy and truth don't even shake hands; in Him, they not only enjoy each other's company, but make covenant with each other, enjoy oneness, and dwell in perfect unity without dampening either's zeal.
Justice is never more just than when it is married to mercy.
Mercy is never more merciful than when it keeps covenant with justice.
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