Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.

Thank you Father for another day, for another week, for another month and for another year. Your grace is sufficient for me.

There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

“Grace bends the rule for us when we accomplish in a few days what could have taken a lifetime to achieve.”

“Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”

“As we learn to receive and live by God’s merciful power and plan, we become both witnesses to and bearers of heavenly grace.”

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.