“If you remember nothing else from this story, remember this: Even those marked by judgment—be it a physical or emotional scar—can be… — Jocelyn Green Copy Share Image
“And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“He loved her with a pursuing love that she could scarcely comprehend. Her mistakes had been paid for. Miracle of miracles, they’d… — Becky Wade Copy Share Image
The Good News is that God's mercy and forgiveness extend to those who repent. Mercy does not mean approving of something that… — Thomas J. Paprocki Copy Share Image
I'm two decisions away from putting up drywall for a living. I am, and there's nothing wrong with that, but whatever I… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Godfulness is simply recognizing the primacy of a presence of love, spaciousness, grace, generativity, caring, and creativity in the world and in… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
My body sometimes feels sore, but it works. I dont sleep well most nights, but I do wake up to experience another… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He made his way to my table and squeezed in next to me as though it was the most natural thing in… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“I must try to enjoy all the graces that God has given me today. Grace cannot be hoarded. There are no banks… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The gospel costs nothing. We cannot buy it or earn it. It can only be received as a free gift, compliments of… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
God did not give Joseph any special information about how to get from being the son of a nomad in Palestine to… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“C. Samuel Storms has so aptly written, Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with… — Peter James Copy Share Image
The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God. ... I do not worship matter. I worship the Creator… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here,… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". .… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“May spending time with You be my first priority, may listening and obeying mark my life, may extravagant childlike joy and amazement… — Katie Kiesler Copy Share Image
Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“There is no shame here. The places where we still fear are simply the places we have yet to fully receive God’s… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm… — John Owen Copy Share Image
For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
“For the Goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it cometh down to the lowest part of our need. It quickeneth… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Sannyas is the art of flying... the art that stops the process of gravitation and starts the process of grace. All that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be a responsible person is to find one's role in the building of shalom, the re-webbing of God, humanity and all… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“The graces are restless today. They pweet and muss, shuddering their wings so that the feathers stick out at defensive angles. I… — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
“You are really and truly and completely free. There is no kicker. There is no if, and, or but. You are free.… — Steve Brown Copy Share Image
When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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