Are You Afraid of Grace?

"You would think, given the routinely low level of our performances at the higher reaches of our being, that we would, in our fantasies at least, welcome a respite from these inexorable audits—that we would imagine for ourselves romances in which the celestial bookkeeping department was given a long and well-deserved vacation. But no, we put it on overtime instead: however much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace."

Robert Capon, Between Noon and Three (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982), p. 5.