Ruth Harrigan Artist

Only God can create justice. And faith gives us the certainty that he does so... God is justice and creates justice. This is our consolation and our hope. And in his justice there is also grace...Grace does not cancel out justice. It does not make wrong into right...The judgment of God is hope, both because it is justice and because it is grace. If it were merely grace, making all earthly things cease to matter, God would still owe us an answer to the question about justice- the crucial question that we ask of history and of God. If it were merely justice, in the end it could bring only fear to us all. 

- Pope Benedict XVI , "Spe Salvi" Encyclical Letter on Christian Hope, 44, 47