Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Here’s another example of the difference in our worldviews. A family in my sister’s neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“When blood is once cold and stagnant, it is no longer human blood; when flesh is once dead, it is no longer… — Stevenson, Robert Louis Copy Share Image
When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Outrageous grace is God’s goodness that comes looking for you when you have nothing but a middle finger flipped in the face… — Daniel Montgomery Copy Share Image
There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“god's grace didn't mean life skipped over the hard parts. Grace meant that when life threatened to drown him, in those catastrophic… — Susan Warren Copy Share Image
Hazel Grace,” he said. “Hi,” I said. “How are you?” “Grand,” he said. “I have been wanting to call you on a… — John Green Copy Share Image
As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
“It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are… — mary anne radmacher Copy Share Image
To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am not interested in having the world revolve around me; that's too boring of an idea. I would rather revolve around… — C JoyBell C Copy Share Image
We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The angel lost her grace, As mascara ran down her face. She forgot love, remembered hate. She no longer had her faith.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have struggled with perfectionism and I think it's a really damaging thing in my own life. When we put that perfectionism… — Rebecca St. James Copy Share Image
Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires. We see things as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
“There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“And Iseult rose up where she sat apart, And with her sweet soul deepening her deep eyes Cast the furs from her… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“the truths of sovereign grace emboldened these men to further the cause of Christ on the earth. This fact should not surprise… — Steven J. Lawson Copy Share Image
“In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will be our delight, our… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I'm enjoying [my career]. If anything I'm aware that the pressure of the first, I suppose, six or seven years I was… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image