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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.”