“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
![“We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to enable us to taste how deeply satisfying…” quote by Sinclair B. Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/da4/sinclair-b-ferguson-3915_assuming_we-should-not-make-the-mistake-of-thinki_1123892.jpg)
![“There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.” quote by Marian Wright Edelman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b72/marian-wright-edelman-2216_boycott_there-were-these-great-women-in-montgome_1813459.png)
