The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.
God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.
Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.