“One of the elements that drew me into the Catholic
Church was the concept of grace, although I've never been able to make more
than clumsy sense of it. I am moved by the idea that God always already loves
us first, before we love God, wholly and without condition, that God forgives
us even before we have done anything to require forgiveness, as we will
inevitably do, and that this outpouring of love and forgiveness fortifies us
for repentance and reform.”—Nancy Mairs, “Here: Grace,” from her memoir Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal (1993)
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