“Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion,… — Joe Tye Copy Share Image
As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“Grace (the Gospel) is under attack today simply because it reveals the GOODNESS of God. Nothing reveals the GOODNESS of God more… — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
“The cross is the place where heaven meets earth and grace erupts. The cross is the place where Jesus does not simply… — Matt Farlow Copy Share Image
Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
It's an extraordinary experience to encounter the two kinds of deaths of my parents, one violent and jagged, it hits you like… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
“She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Do not become self-sufficient . Self-sufficienc y is Satan’s net where he catches men, like poor silly fish, and destroys them. Be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“Then round about the age of twenty-five, I was tired of being tired of being scared about doing something that, if I… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the… — Jay Rayner Copy Share Image
It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
There is no such way to get much grace, as to be thankful for a little grace. He who opens his mouth… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Do not stop praying as long as, by God's grace, the fire and the water have not been exhausted, for it may… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
I think one of the areas of favor and grace that God has allowed us to see is internally he's just given… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then a new thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver went up her spine.… — Penelope Marzec Copy Share Image
...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
“Our pain can refine us or make us bitter. We can look at the world with deeper grace or we can build… — Natasha Metzler Copy Share Image
There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges… — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence. Those who have got the… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I testify of the renewing power of God's love and the miracle of His grace. His concern is for the faith at… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Help us see the gospel afresh every day, to live it and experience its freshness and power. Let us live in the… — Ron Oltmanns Copy Share Image
Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“Dignity is a gracious pride without narcissistic projection. It portrays a calm confidence and awareness regardless of the environment or circumstances.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
God's grace is not given to make us feel better, but to glorify Him... Good feelings may come, or they may not,… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Prayer is the noble supplication which we lift up to the throne of the Most High. It is the most efficient means… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image