God has no sort of use for hateful things
From AM Farrer Lord I Believe I Believe Jesus Christ Died and Rose God has no sort of use for hateful things, and therefore it is that his hatred of them is absolute. His hatred of my failures of love and corruptions is exactly proportioned to His love for us. He who loves me, loves my health, He who loves my health hates my sickness; if his love for me is infinite, His detestation of my evil is immeasurable. … And what is the fate of things which earn the detestation of Almighty love? Is it not that they should be abolished? God's hatred or wrath is, indeed, nothing but this, a simple desire for the abolition of its object. It is not, like mine, a passion. … He hates the sin, but loves the sinner. Here is a saying which must be true in substance if there is to be any hope for sinful men; yet it is misleading and dangerous, if it suggests to me that my sin is not myself, but somehow detachable. … The death of Christ has been called the reconciliation of God's wrath and lo...