But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Consider the generosity of our Savior: what He acquired by dying becomes ours by eating. As often as we receive this Sacrament… — Louis of Granada Copy Share Image
... only the good deed done for Christ's sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Grace, I suddenly understood, is a gift of freedom, of a full liberation from one’s self. It does not ask that anyone… — Dennis Patrick Slattery Copy Share Image
Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In today's world, everyone's so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned.… — Phyllis Smith Copy Share Image
The Christian gospel is a message of freedom through grace and we must stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics. It's a physical law that says everything in nature is moving from order to… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Grace interpreted as a principle, pecca fortiter as a principle, grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Let us ask the Lord for the grace to take these things seriously. He came to fight for our salvation. He won… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“8For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, + 9not… — Tyndale Copy Share Image
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“7I became a servant and preacher of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace as He exercised His amazing power over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God does not deal our karma to us as a punishment. Karma is a manifestation of an impersonal law as well as… — Elizabeth Clare Prophet Copy Share Image
Football was my saving grace so I want to let people know that you can achieve whatever you want. People like to… — Adebayo Akinfenwa Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Full is my heart of revelry and grace." But suddenly he fell in grievous case; For ever the latter end of joy… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
People can be extraordinarily resilient and show extraordinary grace and humour even in moments of tribulation. I've always found that it's much… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid.… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
Augustine of Hippo used to say that, but for God's grace, he should have been capable of committing any crime; and it… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You want to do something for the Lord...do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though youre shaking in your… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I remember when I was growing up and there would be sick people in the church. I was always so sensitive to… — Jacquelyn Nicole Davis Copy Share Image
Grace- [on the phone] Yes. This is Grace Adler of Grace Adler Designs. I was in there yesterday. I told you I… — Will & Grace Copy Share Image
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I believe you know Jesus said "a doctor doesn't come to the healthy, but the sick, and it's not the righteous but… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image