The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
If you are excessively acquiring more than what your needs or deserves in life. You should be ready to face the agony… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“To have even one year when you're presented with choices that can alter your circumstances, your character, your course- that's by the… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I think about people whose lives maybe hadn't turned out as well as me and Joel's lives, and I just think it's… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, “I am not what I ought to be. I… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Conversion is not only changing the faith. Conversion is changing the heart and working over there is the grace of God. Then… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Manifest in this trade (commercial sale of indulgences via bankers) at the same time was a pernicious tendency in the Roman Catholic… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
You may say, 'God doesn't hate anybody. God is love.' No, my friend. You need to understand something. Jesus Christ taught, the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“God not only saves us but He moves in us in the person of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit directs… — J. Bennett Collins Copy Share Image
“The Greek word for “joy” is chara, derived from the word charis, which is the Greek word for grace. This is important… — Rick Renner Copy Share Image
“Everyone experiences grace, even if they don't realize it. It's kind of like Moby's music. You could ask your average sixty-something-year-old retired… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
Christian faith does not involve repressing one's anxiety in order to appear strong. On the contrary, it means recognizing one's weakness, accepting… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“Be ofttimes mindful of the saying, The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Strive, therefore, to turn… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“Healing and a reunification with our unblemished Soul, occur by the hand of grace. There is nothing to integrate nor to understand.… — Ulonda Faye Copy Share Image
“grace of God in bestowing this gift is most free. It was what God was under no obligation to bestow: he might… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“You will consume much more grace by leading a holy life than you will by sinning, because every holy act you do… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“May John Newton’s prayer for himself be our prayer to God for our churches: “I am not what I ought to be.… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“None of us deserves happiness, son. We are broken, sinful failures and not living the kind of life that would deserved to… — Lynette Endcott Copy Share Image
In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to… — Richard Hurd Copy Share Image
Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
“The fullest, and the fairest, and the freest thing in heaven or earth is the free grace of God, to our poor… — Various Copy Share Image
Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical… — Elder Paisios of Mount Athos Copy Share Image
“God acts in the peace of one’s soul. It is not by our own efforts that we succeed in liberating ourselves from… — Jacques Philippe Copy Share Image
“That we shall sincerely, really, and constantly, through the grace of GOD, endeavour, in our several places and callings, the preservation of… — Various Copy Share Image
“Such arguments remind me of a scene from Woody Allen's movie Manhattan, where a group of people is talking about sex at… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
The heart that delights in God and longs only to see His glory advance will seldom be conscious of sacrifice. God in… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
“12:15 — See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up… — Charles F. Stanley Copy Share Image
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When I hear Christians say, "I don't do this, and I don't do that, and I am following a set of rules,"… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
“There are many things which are pastorally helpful in the short or medium term which are not in fact grounded on the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Our only qualification for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness. 'Those who are well have… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
There is no short cut to God; sadhana must be performed regularly and with devotion. It is our own effort which will… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“In “The Cost of Discipleship” Dietrich Bonhoeffer makes it clear that grace is free, but it is not cheap. The grace of… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“Holiness does not come from self-worth. Holiness comes from the power and the enabling of the Holy Spirit through the grace of… — Matthew Robert Payne Copy Share Image
