“Grace knocks us flat, preventing any form of self-congratulation. All the good we achieve is to be attributed to God rather than… — Kathryn Tanner Copy Share Image
It is evil to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one killed. This same justification could… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, /… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy...think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle,… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Knowledge.Grace. True union with the divine. I find that sort of prayer so much more difficult than the other, because it requires… — Anna Jarzab Copy Share Image
If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents split up, if your… — Aaron Gillespie Copy Share Image
When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
In the new covenant, God doesn't want us to be blessed when we obey the law and cursed when we fail. Doesn't… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer,… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Grace doesn’t free us to live for us. The purpose of God’s grace is not to make your little kingdom of one… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Oh for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
“Right now, it is in the worst shape of all. This happened on your watch. Even so, ‘where sin abounds grace does… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God.… — Piers Paul Read Copy Share Image
Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Grace interpreted as a principle, pecca fortiter as a principle, grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics. It's a physical law that says everything in nature is moving from order to… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
The Christian gospel is a message of freedom through grace and we must stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Football was my saving grace so I want to let people know that you can achieve whatever you want. People like to… — Adebayo Akinfenwa Copy Share Image
God does not deal our karma to us as a punishment. Karma is a manifestation of an impersonal law as well as… — Elizabeth Clare Prophet Copy Share Image
“7I became a servant and preacher of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace as He exercised His amazing power over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“8For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, + 9not… — Tyndale Copy Share Image
Let us ask the Lord for the grace to take these things seriously. He came to fight for our salvation. He won… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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