Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills.… — Joey Cheek Copy Share Image
Yes, fasting is not merely a commandment from God but a godly gift, a grace and a blessing. God the creator of… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“Sam came around the back of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. "Oh my God, what is that?" I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Jesus isn’t an afterthought only when we need help, but He should be our first thought. Our first friend. Our first listening… — Tiffany Webster Copy Share Image
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Yet, after all, faith is not our righteousness. It is accounted to us in order to righteousness (Rom 4:5, GREEK), but not… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell,… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Who on Earth are we that the awesome King of all eternity would spare a thought in our direction? Why would the… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
Lord, You have told me who You are, You have in mercy revealed Yourself to me, I know You to be that… — Susannah Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Electronic brains may help us to use our heads but will not excuse us from that duty, and as to our hearts-cardiograms… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To rest in God's power when your own weaknesses seem to be screaming at you? That's grace! To be confident in who… — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“It certainly takes grace to able to find joy in our hearts when people are experiencing joy over a gain that is,… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Once the question of grace and free will is reduced to a juridical matter, once witnesses line up with plaintiff or defendant… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Parenting changed for me when I finally realized it's not about being a perfect parent trying to raise perfect kids, but rather,… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
Christians do not practically remember that while we are saved by grace, altogether by grace, so that in the matter of salvation… — George Muller Copy Share Image
The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“It should be our chief study to treasure up the words of life that we may grow in grace and advance in… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The clan of heroes, the clan of compassion,the clan of destiny." (Firestar on Thunderclan, secrets of the clans) No matter what trials… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
I have always been secretly obsessed with ballet - in awe of the discipline, the physicality, the poise and grace. Behind the… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
I think Grace [Dunham] and I are always working from a personal place, and the fact that these were issues that we'd… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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