Michael Romeo

“Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and even the planet, and God’s grace to me is that my brokenness is not the final word. My selfishness is not the end-all…instead, it’s that God makes beautiful things out of even my own shit. Grace isn’t about God creating humans as flawed beings and then acting all hurt when we inevitably fail and then stepping in like the hero to grant us grace—like saying 'Oh, it’s OK, I’ll be a good guy and forgive you.' It’s God saying, 'I love the world too much to let your sin define you and be the final word. I am a God who makes all things new.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

“I had to get hold of a Doc and some bandages. Maybe I needed a splint. I wasn’t sure, I went away from there. To hell with the screaming woman. I’d save her after I saved myself.”
― Joseph J. Millard, The Noir Mystery MEGAPACK ™: 25 Modern and Classic Mysteries

“Depending on how high I heaped the stones, each wheelbarrow weighed between 175 and 250 pounds. Once I managed to set it in motion, it was loath to stop without banging me up in some fashion, especially during the thrilling plunge down the backyard hill, when I switched roles from cart pusher to dragging victim.”
― Bob Tarte, Enslaved by Ducks: How One Man Went from Head of the Household to Bottom of the Pecking Order

“the Christian faith, while wildly misrepresented in so much of American culture, is really about death and resurrection. It’s about how God continues to reach into the graves we dig for ourselves and pull us out, giving us new life, in ways both dramatic and small.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint