Quotes about Grace

Whether I am the younger son or the elder son, God's only desire is to bring me home.

In the context of a compassionate embrace, our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

We do not have to go after crosses, but we have to take up the crosses that have been ours all along.

What I am called to make true is that whether I am the younger or the elder son, I am the son of my compassionate Father.

We find a place where people give one another grace.

The father is like me"? Do I want to be like the father? Do I want to be not just the one who is being forgiven, but also the one who forgives; not just the one who is being welcomed home, but also the one who welcomes home; not just the one who receives compassion, but the one who offers it as well?

To pray means to stop expecting from God the same small-mindedness which you discover in yourself.

Faith asks us to jump, to surrender and believe that somewhere, somehow, Someone will catch us and bring us home.

When our love grows from God's love we no longer divide people into those who deserve it and those who don't.

The great spiritual call of the Beloved Children of God is to pull their brokenness away from the shadow of the curse and put it under the light of the blessing.

Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.

I am gradually learning that the call to gratitude asks us to say, Everything is grace. As long as we remain resentful about things we wish had not happened, about relationships that we wish had turned out differently, mistakes we wish we had not made, part of our heart remains isolated, unable to bear fruit in the new life ahead of us. It is a way we hold part of ourselves apart from God.