Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

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

I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

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

God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.