Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

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.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

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