Love The Sinner....Hate The Sin....Or Something Like That

In God's city, the inhabitants love people and walk on gold; while in mans city, the inhabitants love gold and walk on people.-Jason Strand 

Ever hear that old saying love the sinner hate the sin, I feel though hate is a bad emotion and should never be used. Hate takes too much emotion and if you hate something like a sin then in my life it seems that it'll spill (Hate) over into other area's of my life. So I'd rather just not give the sin in someones life any of my emotions so I'd rather say love the sinner (we all are sinners) and dislike the sin. Everyday most of us sin at some point in the day, we might lose our temper with someone, lack patients, we might not live up to having a Christ like attitude, but everyday we should strive more to be like him and less like our sinful selves.  I found the quote I started my blog with online while I was just looking around and though so true, many of us are guilty of valuing possessions, money and etc over each other this is wrong we should love each other no matter what. I had people tell me before I don't know how you can be friends with so and so they practice this belief system or I don't know how you can be nice to so and so because they do this that and the other... how could I not befriend others or be nice to them or love them as Christ loved and loves ALL of us. My favorite bible verse was the very first one I memorized as a child at VBS: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.-John 3:16 this verse doesn't say that For God so loved Lori, Steve, Kelly, Billy Bob or Sue but for God so loved the WORLD. So if he can love this whole great big world and it inhabitants they why can't we? Why must we judge others? Why must we even feel the need to Jesus loved many who were lost in their sinful selves. Why do we think we are so much better than those who do not know Christ as their personal savior, were we not lost in sin once upon a time? Did he not stoop down to where we were and lift us up out of that dark hole of sin?