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- Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's…
- God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that…
- Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairness...But…
- Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can…
- Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on…
- If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We…
- Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
- One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need…
- The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the…
- I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with a direct answer…
- In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
- Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.
- True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
- Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
- The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of…
- On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and…
- Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's…
- To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control…
- We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
- Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature,…
- God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
- The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.
- When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong