Love is an overarching style of relating to another.

Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

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, like water, flows to the lowest part.

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?