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“Grace doesn't grease the wheels of the law. Grace isn't God's way of jury rigging a broken law. It's the other way around. The law is just one small cog in a world animated entirely--from top to bottom, from beginning to end--by grace.”

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Book:Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans

Source: Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans

“I won't deny that it is possible for our restless hearts to find rest in God, but I do want to deny that this rest results from the satisfaction of our desires. God does not save us from our hungers by satisfying them. God saves us from the tyranny of our desires by saving us from the impossible work of satisfying them. [from the essay "The God Who Weeps: Notes, Amens, and Disagreements)”

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Book:Future Mormon: Essays in Mormon Theology

Source: Future Mormon: Essays in Mormon Theology

“Sin acts as if God's original plan was for us to bootstrap ourselves into holiness by way of the law and then, when this didn't quite pan out, God offered his grace--but only the bare minimum--to make good the difference. This is exactly backwards. God's boundless grace comes first and sin is what follows.”

God Sin Grace Jesus Christ Lds Mormon

Book:Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans

Source: Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans

“[The Book of Mormon] is given to you as a Urim and Thummim, as your own personal seer stone. Look into it and learn how to see the world by its light. And as you do, you'll be shown not only how to say but to do what the Lord requires.”

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