Nadia Bolz-Weber Quotes

Jesus taught us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us.

I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.

No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. We die and are made new, but that's different from spiritual self-improvement.

Every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.

Church isn’t perfect. It’s practice.

What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners.

Every time I go look for God amidst sorrow, I always find Jesus at the cross, in death and resurrection. This is our God.

And the thing about grace, real grace, is that it stings. It stings because if it's real it means we don't "deserve" it. ... And receiving grace is basically the best shitty feeling in the world.

Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay, " Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it.