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“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”
“If I’m not showing grace . . . have I forgotten the grace I’ve been shown?”
“I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part of me that could remember Grace'...”
“Sam came around the back of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. "Oh my God, what is that?"I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicoloured pom-pom on top of my head. "In my languag...”
“He sleeps with you?""Robert?"Stacey rolled her eyes at”
“. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.”
“I gave her a look. “Rachel.”“Grace, you have to admit this is pretty weird. Say it. You disappearing from the hospital and Olivia is — and Sam suddenly shows up with you and, well, the freaky hallu...”
“…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.”
“You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.”
“I mean, we don’t have to worry about it until winter, anyway,” she said. “I was just wondering if you felt cured.”I didn’t know what to tell her. I didn’t feel cured. I felt like what Cole said —al...”
“Because I am united to Christ, God’s love for me is not as variable as my loyalty to him…. God will not love me more because I do better. He will not love me less because I stumble. His love is bas...”
“Grace unfolds on every page [of Scripture]: God’s long march through the history of human rebellion and ruin to reach us with the love of his Son; the Savior’s humble service, sinless life, sacrifi...”
“The dazzle of illusion, even when we see through it; the ways in which we entangle ourselves, the ways in which we work free-How do we get to change?When all is said and done, it seems a matter of ...”
“Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your own.”
“A man makes himself hard and inflexible in order to escape his guiltiness. The strange paradox present on every page of the Gospels and which we can verify any day, is that it is not guilt which is...”
“G - God’sR - RedemptionA - AtC - Christ’sE - Expense”
“And the thing about grace, real grace, is that it stings. It stings because if it's real it means we don't "deserve" it. ... And receiving grace is basically the best shitty feeling in the world.”
“May God’s grace abound to you for every good work.”
“You can’t re-create the first time you promise to love someone or the first time you feel loved by another. You cannot relive the sensation of fear, admiration, self-consciousness, passion, and de...”
“We “talk” relationship but we “live” religion, with unsatisfying results. Christianity defines itself, first and foremost, as a relationship with God. Even though this is true, our human nature ten...”
