Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Mostly she just missed Vaughn. Missed all those quiet, unspectacular moments that, when added up, showed how entwined their lives had become.… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I do - oh, indeed I do - desire to live up to my profession, to be His, for time and eternity.… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Lord, by the suffering of Christ your Son you have saved is all from the death we inherited from sinful Adam. By… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand. I waited. But Grace, the only person in the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Try to think of it as though we are rewriting history––the first time this experience occurred you and I never kissed in… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
Christ's divinity accounts for His exaltation to the right hand of God, justifies the worship of angels and the confidence of mankind.… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away.… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“Some people are late bloomers because they didn’t think they were going to be here. How can someone plan for a future… — Sammy Sky Copy Share Image
And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Come, come into this circle of grace and friendship. Come bringing only your open heart. You owe us nothing but truth, you… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“The Gospel is sheer good tidings, not demand but promise, not duty but gift. But in order that as promise and gift… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? ... Mother! Call her with a loud voice.… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done FOR us, leading us to faith and worship, we have to… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
“When he was young, the lesson learned from his mother, as much by cuffs as caresses, was that love is action--what you… — John Banville Copy Share Image
God gives His grace to whomever He wishes, and has predestined each individual, an eternity before birth, to be lost or saved… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
“ The Lilly in a Christal You have beheld a smiling Rose When Virgins hands have drawn O’r it a Cobweb-Lawne: And… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Indeed we also work, but we are only collaborating with God who works, for his mercy has gone before us. It has… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the king on the cross. And because he did, there are… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don’t always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“The reason to forgive ourselves is not because we feel like it or because we want to see ourselves as blameless but… — Sue Augustine Copy Share Image
So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys… — John Piper Copy Share Image
My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“It is easily forgotten that the fellowship of Christian brethren is a gift of grace, a gift of the Kingdom of God… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Some war,” he said dismissively. “What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
