A Quote by Timothy Keller
If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.
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Love the sinner, hate the sin? How about: Love the sinner, hate your own sin! I don't have time to hate your sin. There are too many of you! Hating my sin is a full-time job. How about you hate your sin, I'll hate my sin and let's just love each other!
In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.
How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other!
Look, I don't hate homosexuals. I've always said that I love the sinner but I hate the sin.
Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin.
I hate the sin, but I love the sinner.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.
I mean, think about [the phrase 'love the sinner, hate the sin.'] Isn't it like saying, 'I love left-handed people but hate that they're left-handed.' Is that really love? Or is that saying, 'I'm willing to love you as I'd like you to be, not as you are'? Either God's love is unconditional or it's not.
We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
You can take God's viewpoint and call sin sin and still love the sinner.
Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.
It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
Tolerance as practiced by the Christian, enlightened West was never about thinking that bad people are good but that we are all called to love the sinner and hate the sin.
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