“Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times to take it away from me. But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for [my] power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me. So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, catastrophes, persecutions, and in pressures, because of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

—2 Corinthians 12:8–10 (HCSB)

“Even as we are caught in a web of hurt and brokenness, we are also in a web of healing and mercy.”

—Bryan Stevenson
in his book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption