That’s how we often react when grace comes at us. It’s awkward. God offers us something that’s too good to be true—unearned,… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
This child is not mine as the first was; I cannot sing it to rest; I cannot lift it up fatherly, And… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If the elect could perish, then Jesus Christ should be very unfaithful to his father, because God the father hath given this… — Christopher Love Copy Share Image
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Martin Sheen turned to me and said, 'Do you know what Saint Peter says to everyone who tries to get into heaven?'… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . .… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
“Oh!--and I speak out of later knowledge--Heaven forefend me from the most of the average run of male humans who are not… — Jack London Copy Share Image
God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The young May moon is beaming, love. The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love. How sweet to rove, Through Morna's grove, When the… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There's no one can show you the road to paradise, and you can't see it on the map or searching about it… — Black Son Beats Copy Share Image
The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If... Adam had trusted in God and been nourished from the tree of life (Gn. 2:9)? he would not have set aside… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
How far away is Heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. It wasn't very far from Daniel. It was not… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We're still going to be learning in Heaven. We will still be developing and are not yet absolutely perfect. That's what the… — David Berg Copy Share Image
This world o' God's is brighter Than we ever dream or know; Its burdens growin' lighter- An' it's Love that makes 'em… — Frank Lebby Stanton Copy Share Image
“Who do people say the Son of Man is? ...But what about you? Who do you say I am?' (Mt 16:13,15). In… — Andreas J. Kostenberger Copy Share Image
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever.… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful -… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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