The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
But the gospel doesn't need a coalition devoted to keeping the wrong people out. It needs a family of sinners, saved by… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Every decision you need to make, every task you need to accomplish, every relationship you need to navigate, every element of daily… — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
There are still people who insist that we have to preach on repentance. Well, I disagree! I think we should do it… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
"What is normal?" really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
The fullness of Your grace is here with me The richness of Your beauty’s all I see The brightness of Your glory… — Phil Wickham Copy Share Image
Therefore if mine enemy hunger, let me feed him; if he thirst, let me give him drink. Now in order to do… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
We suffer because we have no humility and we do not love our brother. From love of our brother comes the love… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
I am really committed to my faith journey, and I am committed to my family. My husband and I have been married… — Jodi Benson Copy Share Image
In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Dear God, I don’t ask for fame and fortune but for an opportunity to embrace many. I don’t ask you to make… — Ron Baratono Copy Share Image
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“When blood is once cold and stagnant, it is no longer human blood; when flesh is once dead, it is no longer… — Stevenson, Robert Louis Copy Share Image
“Here’s another example of the difference in our worldviews. A family in my sister’s neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
“It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Hazel Grace,” he said. “Hi,” I said. “How are you?” “Grand,” he said. “I have been wanting to call you on a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“god's grace didn't mean life skipped over the hard parts. Grace meant that when life threatened to drown him, in those catastrophic… — Susan Warren Copy Share Image
There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Outrageous grace is God’s goodness that comes looking for you when you have nothing but a middle finger flipped in the face… — Daniel Montgomery Copy Share Image
Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The angel lost her grace, As mascara ran down her face. She forgot love, remembered hate. She no longer had her faith.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have struggled with perfectionism and I think it's a really damaging thing in my own life. When we put that perfectionism… — Rebecca St. James Copy Share Image
I am not interested in having the world revolve around me; that's too boring of an idea. I would rather revolve around… — C JoyBell C Copy Share Image
If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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