John declared that "Christ received not of the fulness at the first," but that he "continued from grace to grace until he… — Alma P Burton Copy Share Image
For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear. If not the first, the fairest of the year; For thee the Graces… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
This is the amazing story of God’s grace. God saves us by His grace and transforms us more and more into the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“The sermon was on the subject of Divine Grace, and how we could be saved by it alone, and not through any… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something about hypochondria: It's a pernicious, undermining little demon. It won't kill you, but it will sap the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, our lives hinge on the ability to make right choices and decisions. By God's grace, I made the most important decision… — R.A. Dickey Copy Share Image
With the grace of Prophet Muhammed and Allah, almost all Hindus in Calicut are converted to Islam. Only a few are still… — Tipu Sultan Copy Share Image
This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Two measly kisses: they uncovered that I was incapable of earning my way religiously, that I couldn't achieve or even want goodness,… — Lisa Velthouse Copy Share Image
Mostly, I stand in awe of the every day women I knew from childhood that I interact with on Facebook. They struggle… — Kambri Crews Copy Share Image
Grace does not demonize our desires nor destroy them nor lead us to deny them. Grace is the work of the Holy… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
“Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads.… — Richard Bachman Copy Share Image
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method… — Ouida Copy Share Image
In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
For here we are so blind and foolish that we never seek God until he, of his goodness, shows himself to us.… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
I have enormous respect for the human being because they're asked to take on a lot. And I don't think there's any… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
She reached down and traced my eyebrows. 'You do have really beautiful eyes.' 'We get to keep them,' I said. Grace started… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“The Bible isn't a rule book. It's a love letter. I'm not an employee. I'm a child. It's not about my performance.… — Jefferson Bethke Copy Share Image