“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.”
“I would far rather convey grace than explain it.”
“Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.”
“If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.”
“Absolute ideals and absolute grace: after learning that dual message from Russian novelists, I returned to Jesus and found that it suffuses his teaching throughout the Gospels and especially in the Sermon on the Mount.”