“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”

“My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.”

“Grant me grace, O God! that I
My life may mend, sith I must die.”

“Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible”

“What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.”

“There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.”

“The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.”

“God did not reckon his Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.
Costly grace is the sanctuary of God; it has to be protected from the world, and not thrown to the dogs. It is therefore the living word, the Word of God, which he speaks as it pleases him. Grace is costly because it compels a man to submit to the yoke of Christ and follow him; it is grace because Jesus says: "My yoke is easy and my burden is light."”

“When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.”

“No man is born unto himself alone;
Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.”