“I feel sad for the righteous man who cannot find understanding or compassion for a magnificent sinner like me.”
“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
“The righteous man pays the sinner's bill.”
“even the righteous man is just a sinner livin in between sins!”
“...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...”
“He stared at Esmelda with a face like glass, nothing hidden. What I saw there wasn’t steel or fire or stone. Feelings stirred in me and I had to look away. I knew what I saw because I’d felt them, too — understanding, sadness, compassion...forgiveness.”