"The Christian lives by grace as Abba's child, utterly rejecting the God who catches people by surprise in a sign of weakness--the God incapable of smiling at our awkward mistakes, the God who does not accept a seat at our human festivities, the God who says 'You will pay for that', the God incapable of understanding that children will always get dirty and be forgetful." --Brennan Manning, Abba's Child
