{"id":9763,"date":"2026-05-23T22:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9763"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:38:43","slug":"god-persists-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9763","title":{"rendered":"God Persists in Love."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Boyle58.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Boyle58.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Boyle58.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Boyle58-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since God persists in love, no matter how dark things get, God is not preoccupied nor enfeebled by our &#8220;sin.&#8221;  This is true because God doesn&#8217;t see sin but wholeness.  God sees right through it.  A homie texted me, sending a YouTube homily by a bishop who spoke of sin and the need for a &#8220;contrite heart.&#8221;  This gave the homie a passageway to deem himself really, &#8220;a worthless piece of shit.&#8221;  I texted back only this:  &#8220;God doesn&#8217;t see sin.  God sees son.&#8221;  The relief in his next text was palpable.  His notion of sin was self-estranging.  He wanted to accept that he was &#8220;son&#8221; but didn&#8217;t know how to dare to believe it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gregory Boyle, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/forgive_everyone_everything.html\">Forgive Everyone Everything<\/a><\/em>, p. 26<\/p>\n<p>Photo:  Bluebells at Bull Run Regional Park, Virginia, April 3, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since God persists in love, no matter how dark things get, God is not preoccupied nor enfeebled by our &#8220;sin.&#8221; This is true because God doesn&#8217;t see sin but wholeness. God sees right through it. A homie texted me, sending a YouTube homily by a bishop who spoke of sin and the need for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-god","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9765,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763\/revisions\/9765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}