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“While these loved ones may not meet our expectations, it is our expectations, not our loved ones, that have let us down.”
― Al-Anon Family Groups, Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II

“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”
― Mark Twain

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov