A bit (more) o' Anselm

"The mercy of God, which seemed to you to be lost when we were considering God's justice and humanity's sin, we find now to be so great and so in accord with justice that neither a greater nor a more just can be thought. For what possibly could be understood to be more merciful than that God the Father should say to the sinner--damned to eternal torment and having no means whereby to redeem himself--"Take my Only-begotten and offer him for yourself"; and that the Son himself should say "take me and redeem yourself"? For thus they speak, when they call us and lead us to Christian faith. What indeed was more just than that he--to whom is given a price exceeding every debt, if only given with the love that he is truly owed--should put aside every debt?"

Anselm Cur Deus Homo? II.XX