“When you can cross the highwire without falling off, you are in a state of perfect balance, perfect grace. It is the… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
The Kingdom of grace is nothing but… the beginning of the Kingdom of glory; the Kingdom of grace is glory in the… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own.… — St. Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
A certain monk told me that when he was very sick, his mother said to his father, "How our little boy is… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Men, to exist, to become complete and mature, need to feel the joy of fatherhood. When a man does not have this… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion,… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share Image
By the grace of God I want to impart the Word, and bring you into a place where you will dare to… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on… — Charles Bolden Copy Share Image
“Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light, and looked back at me, at my eyes, my… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Grace-focused ministers recognize the daily repentance that private prayers must include, confess to others the divine aid that grants them the strength… — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort … our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious rising… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer Copy Share Image
“This light represents the finest of all of us: Our art, poetry and songs, discoveries, creations, and science. Our ability to pick… — Ruth Ann Oskolkoff Copy Share Image
“Jesus was willing to be despised. He was willing to face rejection. He was willing to subject himself to hatred and violence.… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“Grace: Outside, deep in the woods, I heard a long keening wail, and then another, as the wolves began to howl. More… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
By definition, if man contributes anything toward acceptance by God, he loses everything. God expects man to be the recipient, not the… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with… — N. C. Wyeth Copy Share Image
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Our requests are necessary expressly to strengthen our faith, through which alone we can be saved. 'By grace are we saved through… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Jesus must have had man hands. He was a carpenter, the Bible tells us. I know a few carpenters, and they have… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“The power of loving a God whom religion paints as the most detestable of beings would, doubtless, be a proof of the… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A Christian should know that God is a Creator, that God is an entity that is all-powerful and all knowledgeable, God is… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
