Reading "What's So Amazing About Grace" by Philip Yancey - week of July 24, 2006
"Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more....And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less..." (p.70)
"Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost....Why, then, do I so often act as if I am trying to earn that love? Why do I have trouble accepting it?" (p. 67)
"Yet if I care to listen, I hear a loud whisper from the gospel that I did not get what I deserved. I deserved punishment and got forgiveness. I deserved wrath and got love. I deserved debtor's prison and got instead a clean credit history. I deserved stern lectures and crawl-on-your-knees repentence; I got a banquet - Babette's feast - spread for me" (p. 64)
"Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting. We receive grace as a gift from God, not as something we toil to earn..." (p. 61)
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