Skyler Powell

“Even after many of us are saved, we run ahead of the gospel into the field of the law, in our own power, trying to do great things for God or earn favor with him—all the while forgetting that the only thing the Bible calls power for obedience is the gospel and that it is actually grace that teaches us how to repent and obey.”
― Jared C. Wilson, The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together

“Harm to you is not harm to me in the strict sense, and that is a great part of the problem. He could knock me down the stairs and I would have worked out the theology for forgiving him before I reached the bottom. But if he harmed you in the slightest way, I'm afraid theology would fail me.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Nobody ever knows the whole truth. That’s why promises mean something. Otherwise they’d be too easy, don’t you see? We look toward the unknown future and promise to be faithful no matter what comes.”
― Claudia Gray, Lost Stars

“Your mother asked him if he would like to say grace, and he did, with an elegant simplicity that seemed almost wasted on macaroni and cheese.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead