The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

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

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

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

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.