God loves each one of us as if there was only one of us to love, said Augustine.

Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace.

we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." And "he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

sacrificial love is one of the most powerful weapons in the Christian's arsenal of grace.

two major causes of most emotional problems among evangelical Christians are these: the failure to understand, receive, and live out God's unconditional grace and forgiveness; and the failure to give out that unconditional love, forgiveness, and grace to other people. . . . We read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that's not the way we live. The good news of the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the level of our emotions.

The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back.

Love, too, is why I believe. At the end of life, what else matters?

Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: "The Maker of all things loves and wants me.

The novelist Reynolds Price says there is one sentence above all that people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me. Christians still believe in that truth.

What would it take for church to become known as a place where grace is "on tap

As Dorothy Day put it, "I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.