At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss.
Brennan ManningTags: grace jesus sinner the-ragamuffin-gospel
A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this IS grace.
Elizabeth GilbertOnly those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.
C.J. MahaneyLove is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
Marilynne RobinsonTags: love grace holy worthy unearned-blessings
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
Frederick Buechner...there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, has been dead all along. The blame game was over before it started. It really was. All Jesus did was announce that truth and tell you it would make you free. It was admittedly a dangerous thing to do. You are a menace. Be he did it; and therefore, menace or not, here you stand: uncondemned, forever, now. What are you going to do with your freedom?
Robert Farrar CaponTags: truth freedom faith grace jesus law
But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live not in fear of mistakes but in the knowledge that no mistake can hold a candle to the love that draws us home. My repentance, accordingly, is not so much for my failings but for the two-bit attitude toward them by which I made them more sovereign than grace. Grace - the imperative to hear the music, not just listen for errors - makes all infirmities occasions of glory.
Robert Farrar CaponTags: love freedom faith grace jesus law
Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the streets of the universe, flinging the sweetness of its cassations to every window, pounding at every door in a hilarity beyond all liking and happening, until the prodigals come out at last and dance, and the elder brothers finally take their fingers out of their ears.
Robert Farrar CaponTags: faith grace celebration
Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.
Thomas WatsonTags: christianity grace christ
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
AberjhaniTags: innocence philosophy war death faith grace light spirituality inner-peace healing recovery life-and-death rebirth poem-in-your-pocket-day resurrection going-home home-going killed-in-the-line-of-duty spiritual-nature spiritual-philosophy victims-of-gun-violence victims-of-war war-victims
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