Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he… — Jacobus Arminius Copy Share Image
The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Eternal God, lead me now out of the familiar setting of my doubts and fears, beyond my pride and my need to… — Ted Loder Copy Share Image
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul,… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
“Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is acquainted with all… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
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There is only one way to receive transmission. When I tell you something, do it immediately, without the least wavering thought. That's… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
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Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
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Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God. God has certain holy and righteous… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
... these three witnesses are one, as John said: 'The water, the blood, and the Spirit' (I Jn. 5:8). One in the… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
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We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
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Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
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