Professor Dohmler raised himself like a legless man mounting a pair of crutches.

That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.

Tough times never last. Tough people do

Shame off you. Grace on you.

But you know He doesn't take away the rough times. He helps you through them. Besides, all the difficult stuff makes you grow. It helps you depend on Him and not on yourself." Doug to Christy, pg. 156

I know. And that's the thing about grace. And love, too. They're not fair at all.

I have, by God's grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God's mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.

Infinite humiliation and grace, and then a striving born of gratitude — this is Christianity.

What is it to be God's elect ? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.