Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

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

I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.

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.

We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.