Saturday of Lent Week 3

"If you set up as your aim to practice mercy, train yourself not to pursue justice in other fields, lest you appear to work with one hand and to spill with the other. For there clemency is necessary, but here magnanimity. Let the forgiveness of those who are guilty towards you in these things, be reckoned by you as a work of righteousness. Then you will see peace springing up in your soul" (from The Mystical Treatises of Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 4, 42).