Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.

God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.