Does God's Kindness Preclude His Severity?

This morning in my reading, I ran across the following gripping quote from the pen of the late A.W. Tozer (from his book, The Knowledge of the Holy):

"God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws every day nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings we dare not so trifle with our eternal future."

Sobering and true!

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pj