The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives (Case for ... Series)

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. C. S. Lewis

When the Bible says God loves the world, it doesn’t footnote any exceptions. God’s grace is inexhaustible.

‘Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,’ says C. S. Lewis.

When I’m stuck in shame, that’s me taking back on myself what Jesus took on himself.

I’m more than a servant. I’m adopted by a Father whose love is perfect, whose acceptance is unconditional, whose affection is never-ending, and whose generosity is boundless. A Father who is for me . . . forever.

Said Philip Yancey, “We can never sink so far that God’s grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights.”6

good feelings can be generated in so many different ways that we ought not let our feelings dictate which religious direction we’re going

Richard Niebuhr called ‘a God without wrath who brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.’ ”22

Fools hate wisdom, are complacent, bring grief to their parents, lack common sense, pursue schemes, revel in folly, are full of pride, practice deception, refuse to make amends, spurn discipline, scorn advice, and exalt themselves.3