True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

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.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.

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