Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

New roads; new ruts.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.