Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
—Baruch Spinoza
Spinoza always was a wordy bastard. My old man expressed this as:
“Remember, Nature always bats last!”
God always forgives, man sometimes forgives, but nature never forgives.