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
You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“I wondered how much time they'd spent practicing entrances like this one, smoothing away their rough edges and rendering them brief but… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
But prosperity, and the happy issue of events, ought also to be attributed to his grace, in order that he may always… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“Gifts of grace come to all of us. But we must be ready to see and willing to receive these gifts. It… — Jerry Sittser Copy Share Image
“God did not bring you into the world because He had any need of you, useless as you are; but solely that… — St. Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner.… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
O fire of love! Was it not enough for You to have created us to Your image and likeness, and to have… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The hand on my hair moved to my back, and I realized someone was singing softly. The voice was familiar, and something… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I often feel the pressure, from my peers and others, to come out and “take a stand” on a moral or social… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
Lady Placida smiled. “History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
The truth is that we are saved by grace only after all we ourselves can do. (See 2 Ne. 25:23.) There will… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Daniel's message of hope and help is still the good news of God's grace. We call it the gospel today. It still… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Even grief recedes with time and grace. But our resolve must not pass. Each of us will remember what happened that day,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
by grace ye are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we… — Polycarp Copy Share Image
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness exclaims, "I will not be saved in God's way; I will make a new road to heaven; I will not bow… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
“The habit of praying before my meal trains me in a way of being-in-the-world. It reminds me that my personal experience is… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“There are three rules that exclude anyone from the grace of God: The unwillingness to love someone that has chosen a different… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Finding beauty in a broken world is acknowledging that beauty leads us to our deepest and highest selves. It inspires us. We… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Typically, images or paintings are designated as anamorphic when, in order for the image to appear, a particular line of sight must… — Adam Miller Copy Share Image
Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so… — Octavius Winslow 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