What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“In a tired time, with the light outside drifting away for another day and the lights inside flickering as they come to… — R.J. Heller Copy Share Image
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
... Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Many biblical passages teach that we're not saved by our own efforts but by the grace of God alone. But the same… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace,… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“The kind of perfection that Jesus says comes from his Father—and the kind he calls his disciples to pursue—does not find its… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
I could be dead or something even more tragic could have happened, but by God's grace I am still alive. I was… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed… — James Bertolino Copy Share Image
Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making an orderly… — Louis Berkhof Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just trust certain intuitions on certain things. As we age, I start to follow it without being scared. So whatever… — Mauro Remiddi Copy Share Image
“Charis, as Paul uses it, is an act of kindness, an expression of selfless love that is completely undeserved and is given… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I'm talking to people all of the time. So it hasn't really had a big impact. Access is never my main concern… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“Where did everyone find the will to do all the work in the world? We're all allowed a kind of grace period,… — Alethea Black Copy Share Image
He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Your life AFTER Christ is not static or an end result. You are not suspended in grace above the fray of life.… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“What was it you told me, Jesus?” she asked him softly. “Do you remember? Love is love is love. Pain is pain… — Shannon Noelle Long Copy Share Image
How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Clearly, what God wants above all is our will which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must approach our meditation realizing that 'grace,' 'mercy,' and 'faith' are not permanent inalienable possessions which we gain by our efforts… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
“For most of my life I have thought of grace as a hope of a bright tomorrow in spite of the darkness… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society,… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been,… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
“Krupa (divine grace) means ‘every time sincere’. Without becoming suitable for naimitik krupa (apparent grace), one cannot attain the nischay (Realization that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Dear God, I don’t ask for fame and fortune but for an opportunity to embrace many. I don’t ask you to make… — Ron Baratono Copy Share Image
