More accurately, they are full of references to God’s favor, gift, or benefaction, using a variety of Greek terms including the word charis, which we normally translate “grace.”

“This book is about engaging the deepest aspirations of our secular friends and asking them to consider how the story of the gospel, as strange as may seem to them at first, just may lead them to what their heart has been looking for all along.”
― Telling a Better Story: How to Talk About God in a Skeptical Age
― Telling a Better Story: How to Talk About God in a Skeptical Age

“The phrase a personal relationship with Jesus is nowhere in the Bible. I’m not saying we don’t have one, but people take that idea way too far. You are not saved into a vacuum. You are saved into a community of called-out ones. Jesus saved us to reconcile us to God and to people.”
― My Name is Hope: Anxiety, depression, and life after melancholy
― My Name is Hope: Anxiety, depression, and life after melancholy

“Pray as you can, and somewhere along the way, you will make the most important discovery of your life—the love the Father has for you. That discovery is God’s end of the deal. Your part is just to show up honestly. Show up, and keep showing up. That’s the one nonnegotiable when it comes to prayer.”
― Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
― Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

“Memories are always partly untrue.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue

“Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you’ve never met, but love. Even if you hate them, it’s a loving thing to do. You speak someone else’s words to yourself, and hear them for the first time.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue

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