The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)

The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.

Because Jesus paid it all, we are free from the need to do it all. Our identity, worth, and value, are not anchored in what we can accomplish but in what Jesus accomplished for us.

It's when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.

We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. It is the message of grace.~Quote by Brennan Manning

God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.

What you will encounter is 'grace unmeasured, vast and free' --the kind that will frighten and free you at the same time. That's what grace does, after all.

It is not our job to remain whole.We came to lose our leavesLike the trees, and be born again, Drawing up from the great roots.

Do not judge others, without first judging yourself. There is no strength without knowing thyself. ☥

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

A man is more than his failings.

What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.