We respectfully call on Jill's captors to exercise justice and mercy and let our innocent colleague go free.

Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.

Give both the infinitudes their due - / Infinite mercy, but, I wis, / As infinite a justice too.

YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Humans need fantasy to be human. Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet you act, like there was some sort of rightness in the universe by which it may be judged: Yes. But people have got to believe that or what's the point? My point exactly.