The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

To progress is always to begin again.

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.