Quotes about Grace

The grace factor will be revealed in three areas of your life: grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.

grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.

Grace for the race is grace for your mission.

Grace for the place is grace for your position.

Grace for the case is grace for your condition.

A Christian who prays only when they feel like it may survive but they will never thrive. Their vast, innate potential will be stunted because grace needs a little space to take root between the cracks of a person's life.

What if the call to pray is a call to bleed as well as to receive blessing?

There is no higher "law" to be obeyed than the law of love. That, at the end of the day, is what it means to follow Jesus.

For Christians, then, the question is not "Who gets the Bible right?" The question is and has always been, "Who gets Jesus right?" The Gospel writers and Paul couldn't have made that any clearer.

a common burden so many Christians have unwittingly carried, namely, that watching over us is God, an unstable parent, who is right off the bat harsh, vindictive, at best begrudgingly merciful, and mainly interested in whether we've read and understood the fine print; if not, God has no recourse but to punish us.

I still think and talk about what I think God is like, but I've hopefully learned (feel free to keep me honest here, people) that being right and winning isn't the endgame here. Loving as God loves is.

But at least I didn't do any harm. Along the way I came to see more and more that being right about God and making sure everyone else agreed with what I knew might not be the most important thing I could do in God's eyes.