“...there is more mercy in God than sin in us.”

“Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less.”

“The closer we are to God, the more the slightest sin will cause us deep sorrow.”

“There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.”

“The sins of good men are greater than the sins of bad men. One lie from a truthful man is more hurtful than all the lies of a liar. The sins of a man after God's own heart have done more harm than all the crimes of all the Pagan emperors.”

“We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be made new...Sometimes sorrow is easier than joy, and despair more comforting that hope.”