“Like a dying star, grace dissipates in a final burst of pale light, and is then engulfed by the black hole of "ungrace.”

“The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.”

“Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.”

“These days I have to work twice as hard to look half as good.”

“Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.”

“Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.”

“Al Hickey: [following the final shootout] Nobody came... nobody cares. It's still not about anything.Frank Boggs: Yeah, you told me.”