"The Christian life, I believe, does not primarily center on ethics or rules but rather involves a new way of seeing. I escape the force of spiritual "gravity" when I begin to see myself as a sinner who cannot please God by any method of self-improvement of self-enlargement.
Only then can I turn to God for outside help - for grace - and to my amazement I learn that a holy God already loves me despite my defects.
I escape the force of gravity again when I recognize my neighbors also as sinners, loved by God. A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses."
"What's So Amazing About Grace?" by Philip Yancey - Zondervan 1997.
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