The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that,… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower… — Tadashi Shoji Copy Share Image
Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to “suppress sin”. If you are capable of suppressing your… — John Paul warren Copy Share Image
Don’t cry for me, Grace. I’m not worth it. (Julian) Yes you are! (Grace) You are my saving Grace. Without you, I… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
My chains are gone I've been set free My God, my Savior has ransomed me And like a flood His mercy reigns… — Chris Tomlin Copy Share Image
Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
“When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
“Wait, go back to that Southern Baptist part,” Julia said, interrupting, as she does. “Are you a born-again?” articulating her question as… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every day of our Christian experience should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. We… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Let's be clear about one thing: a film about Katharine Hepburn is an excellent idea. She was one of the most fascinating,… — William J. Mann Copy Share Image
Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning that you now have more sense… — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
O Christian, never be proud of things that are so transient, injurious, and uncertain as the riches of this evil world! But… — Isaac Ambrose Copy Share Image
But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
“How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water may as well… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I… — George Muller Copy Share Image
When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this - that his sense of sin is becoming deeper,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said "Grace." The tone of it. The… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find… — Mary McDonnell Copy Share Image
