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

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

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 would far rather convey grace than explain it.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square