“If [God] can give us his Son with so total a giving, what can he refuse us? There is no refusal in God. The refusals are ours. In this truth the contradiction vanishes between infinite mercy and infinite justice. Repentance is acceptance of God and changes the man, so that mercy can have its way with him, justice content. There is no ultimate loss for any man save in his ultimate refusal of God.”

—Frank Sheed

From his book “Knowing God: God and the Human Condition”