“I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.”

“Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.”

“Grace is having a commitment to- or acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish.”

“Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.”

“...that grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish.”

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”

“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.”