For God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to
permit any evil to exist. The same creature who stubbornly turned away from His Light
and violated the image of the Creator in himself, who had in the evil use of
his free will broken away from the wholesome discipline of God's law--would it
not have been just if such a being had been abandoned by God wholly and forever
and laid under the everlasting punishment which he deserved? Clearly God would
have done this if he were only just and not also merciful and if he had not
willed to show far more striking evidence of his mercy by pardoning some who
were unworthy of it.
~Augustine
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