Abby Veach

“Being part of  Christ’s bizarro kingdom looks more like being thirsty and having someone you don’t even like give you water than it looks like polishing your crown.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

“The adjective so often coupled with mercy is the word tender, but God’s mercy is not tender; this mercy is a blunt instrument. Mercy doesn’t wrap a warm, limp blanket around offenders. God’s mercy is the kind that kills the thing that wronged it and resurrects something new in its place. In our guilt and remorse, we may wish for nothing but the ability to rewrite our own past, but what’s done cannot, will not, be undone. But I am here to say that in the mercy of  God it can be redeemed. I cling to the truth of  God’s ability to redeem us more than perhaps any other. I have to. I need to. I want to. For when we say “Lord have mercy,” what else could we possibly mean than this truth?”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

“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.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

“the holy things we need for healing and sustenance are almost always the same as the ordinary things right in front of us.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People