"Grace is something you can never get but only be given. There is no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can bring about your own birth. Somebody loving you is grace. Loving somebody is grace. There is only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too."

Fredrick Buechner