Quotes about Exception

To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; if is like the force of gravity.

the mere necessity brings with it a dispensation, since necessity knows no law. . . .

When the Bible says God loves the world, it doesn't footnote any exceptions. God's grace is inexhaustible.

To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

The sin of David stands out like a tar-baby in a field of snow, like a blackberry in a bowl of cream. It may cause us to miss the greatness of the man. Remember that sin was the exception in David's life—not the pattern of it. The Word of God does not play down the sin of David; it does not whitewash the man. God doesn't say it is not sin. God is going to call it sin, and David will be punished for it.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in this nineteenth century of ours. Of course he does. I, of all men, am not going to deny that. But remember that there has never been an artistic age, or an artistic people since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been, and will always be, an exquisite exception.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.