Cathleen Falsani

While it's true that you may lose your religion during the course of a lifetime, you never lose your salvation. Once you…

— Cathleen Falsani

You can call it what you like, categorize it, vivisect it, qualify, quantify, or dismiss it, and none of it will make…

— Cathleen Falsani

“Sometimes grace is having the strength to persevere through the storm. Sometimes it's having the guts to rebuild, to take a chance,…

— Cathleen Falsani

In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her-hadn't even wanted her, truthfully-but…

— Cathleen Falsani

“Wait, go back to that Southern Baptist part,” Julia said, interrupting, as she does. “Are you a born-again?” articulating her question as…

— Cathleen Falsani

“Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.”

— Cathleen Falsani

“Everyone experiences grace, even if they don't realize it. It's kind of like Moby's music. You could ask your average sixty-something-year-old retired…

— Cathleen Falsani

Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve.…

— Cathleen Falsani

“I would say that grace is startling,” Jean told me as he began retelling the story of how he wound up as…

— Cathleen Falsani

“Grace to me is a little bit of extra help when you're feeling stuck or doomed or, probably, hopefully, out of good…

— Cathleen Falsani

Of all the exotic aromas and experiences from my sojourn in Ethiopia, it’s the frankincense I miss most.

— Cathleen Falsani

“Some theologians argue that one kind of grace is better than another, and that some people think they're experiencing “divine” grace when…

— Cathleen Falsani

I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are…

— Cathleen Falsani

“Why grace? Because some days, it's the only thing we have in common. Because it's the one thing I'm certain is real.…

— Cathleen Falsani

“This is where Jean's stubbornness and, perhaps, God's stubborn grace came into play. “My definition of grace would be multifaceted, but part…

— Cathleen Falsani

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.

— Cathleen Falsani

“God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention. Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent…

— Cathleen Falsani

Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.

— Cathleen Falsani

“Outside, it feels like there is less standing between the Creator and us. There is a lingering visceral connection we can hear…

— Cathleen Falsani

Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is…

— Cathleen Falsani

“Then round about the age of twenty-five, I was tired of being tired of being scared about doing something that, if I…

— Cathleen Falsani

“I have a complicated spiritual history. Here's the short version: I was born into a Mass-going Roman Catholic family, but my parents…

— Cathleen Falsani

My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this…

— Cathleen Falsani

“Jesus must have had man hands. He was a carpenter, the Bible tells us. I know a few carpenters, and they have…

— Cathleen Falsani

“Together, on his back porch, his cigarette smoke rising like incense to the heavens, we spoke to the God of grace we…

— Cathleen Falsani