God’s mercy breaks the notion that people only receive what they deserve and earn. God’s mercy is God’s love in action.

God’s mercy breaks the notion that people only receive what they deserve and earn. God’s mercy is God’s love in action.
While I was re-reading Cardinal Walter Kasper’s book “Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Life” (Translated by Walter Madges), I was also working through the philosophy of personalism with students at St. John’s University.
As I am re-reading Cardinal Walter Kasper’s book, “Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Life” (Translated by William Madges. New York: Paulist Press, 2014, pp. 288), I keep finding passages that I wish to quote in order to share Cardinal Kasper’s insights with readers of this column.
We should trust in God when it seems that everything in our lives is going the way we want our lives to be; we should trust in God when nothing in our lives is going the way we want it to go.
I can’t think of a better book to read in 2016 than Cardinal Walter Kasper’s “Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to the Christian Life” (Translated by Walter Madges. New York: Paulist Press, 2014, pp. 288).