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1 " The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time. Not only that, but maybe the basic message of original sin isn't " feel guilty all the time." Maybe it is more along these lines: " We all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can't live up to it all the time. "
2 " There is a tension in the Bible between justice and mercy, between the Old Testament and the New Testament. And the New Testament says you can never be good enough: goodness is the thing, and you can never live up to it. The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time. "
― Paul Kalanithi , When Breath Becomes Air
