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1 " Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? "
― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace?
2 " Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above. "
3 " All of us in the church need “grace-healed eyes” to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us. "
4 " The first nation to separate Christianity from government produced perhaps the most religious nation on earth. "
5 " Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to. "
6 " Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional. "
7 " Grace is shockingly personal. As Henri Nouwen points out, 'God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found. "
8 " God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already. "
9 " Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more... And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less... Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love. "
10 " Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative. "
11 " A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God. "
12 " Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world? "
13 " I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty. "
14 " In other words, the proof of spiritual maturity is not how 'pure' you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace. "
15 " I would far rather convey grace than explain it. "
16 " Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them. "
17 " [...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift? "
18 " We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us. "
19 " At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love. "
20 " C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist. "
