Absence Quote by Frederick Buechner

“Grace is not the absence of the struggle; it is the presence of protection.”

— Sarah Jakes

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

— William Hazlitt

“Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.”

— Robert C. Shannon

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just…

— John Piper

To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.

— Cornelius Plantinga

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

— Philip Yancey

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

— Max Lucado

“Under law, the best of us is justly charged guilty on account of sin, but under grace, the worst of us is justly charged…

— Paul Ellis

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.

— Luke McShane

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

— John Updike

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

— Barbara Stanwyck

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

— Aaron Allston