“Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.”

“I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.”

“Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.”

“Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.”

“We are all trophies of God’s grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)”

“I would far rather convey grace than explain it.”

“As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)”