Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder. All human beings suffer… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they,… — Marie Dentiere Copy Share Image
“We learn to tread more warily, to trust less to our own strength, to have lower thoughts of ourselves, and higher thoughts… — John Newton Copy Share Image
It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a… — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
Hannah Tinti writes with uncommon grace and stunning insight. Her quirky tribe of outcasts will break into your dreams and steal your… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When I hear Christians say, "I don't do this, and I don't do that, and I am following a set of rules,"… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“What if God in all his might is simply waiting to show his power in a people who turn their backs on… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and naturally and… — Janet Robertson Copy Share Image
“Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“The Reverend Sydney Smith, though a man of the cloth, caught the spirit of the age by declining to say grace. 'With… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Then this must be my answer: We know that the attributes of God are infinite and it has always seemed strange to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out…In great grief,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver… From the earliest parts of the Bible,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christian faith does not involve repressing one's anxiety in order to appear strong. On the contrary, it means recognizing one's weakness, accepting… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“And if God was willing to go to the cross and endure such pain and absorb such a cost in order to… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Dan came around the pulpit. "If you're standing in a place today where you know you need more--healing, hope, a glimpse that… — Susan May Warren Copy Share Image
There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most." Frowning, the man… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books;… — Mathew Roydon Copy Share Image
God is undoubtedly ready to pardon whenever the sinner turns. Therefore, he does not will his death, in so far as he… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Everyone experiences grace, even if they don't realize it. It's kind of like Moby's music. You could ask your average sixty-something-year-old retired… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
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