“Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.”

Family is the only real wealth.

Loathesome I am, and evil. You can mock me for that. But leave my pain alone!

There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies.

Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.

They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work.

Love means never having to say you’re sorry. However, it is with sincere regret that I must now kill all of you.

I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!

It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us, binds us, curses us.

Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.

Love slandered the heart, we fumbled gracefully, we fell in love with the end from the start.

Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

I stepped into love with grace. I stepped out of love with grace. The beginning was beautiful. The ending was beautiful.

You can’t resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.