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There is nothing at all that God won't forgive.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn't believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience.

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin.

Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.