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What's So Amazing About Grace? (1997)
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If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
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I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.
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The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
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Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.
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Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.
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Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.
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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
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Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should not involve themselves in politics. It simply means that as we do so we must not let the rules of power displace the command to love.
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We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
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At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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1949
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