Stumbling Into Grace Quotes

“I’ve been praying for that same kind of discernment lately. I want to recognize the dangerous, potentially biting characters in my story: the people who create constant emotional debris with their destructive personalities or who refuse to shed the skin of deception, the ones who threaten the God-with-me peace in my life. I’m learning to keep my distance and to pray for snakes, but not make a habit of getting down in the dirt to play with them.”
― Lisa Harper, Stumbling into Grace: Confessions of a Sometimes Spiritually Clumsy Woman

“God’s arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.1 —Philip Yancey”
― Lisa Harper, Stumbling into Grace: Confessions of a Sometimes Spiritually Clumsy Woman

“It was never meant to be a prescribed time and place for us to obsess about doing the appropriate thing at the appropriate moment all while wearing an appropriate outfit.”
― Lisa Harper, Stumbling into Grace: Confessions of a Sometimes Spiritually Clumsy Woman