God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...The means of choice: She might choose to ascend The falling dream, By some angelic power without a name Reverse the motion,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light.… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Grace is so great an adornment for a rider, and at the same time so important a means to the knowledge of… — Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere Copy Share Image
I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“#1. Spend more time considering evidences of grace in other Christians than you do pondering their sins and weaknesses. You, as a… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems that light can transform anything! That it is an undeniable and irreducible metaphor for grace. But do the people… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is worthy of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
“I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But under the righteous government of God no one is wretched who does not deserve to be so. The objects of mercy,… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Some war,” he said dismissively. “What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the king on the cross. And because he did, there are… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The reason to forgive ourselves is not because we feel like it or because we want to see ourselves as blameless but… — Sue Augustine Copy Share Image
The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don’t always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys… — John Piper Copy Share Image
My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“It is easily forgotten that the fellowship of Christian brethren is a gift of grace, a gift of the Kingdom of God… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done FOR us, leading us to faith and worship, we have to… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
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