God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that image as a Body because any one of us taken individually would present an incomplete image, one partly false and always distorted, like a single glass chip hacked from a mirror. But collectively, in all our diversity, we can come together as a community of believers to restore the image of God in the world.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help." Nor must we search for signs of "loveworthiness." Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.

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

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.