It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being...

I want to listen to accomplished women scarred by sexism that still walk in elegance and kindness; hear powerful men that have a heart to serve. I want to talk to the brokenhearted that still...

We each have the power to give. It’s the most gratifying feeling ever. By reaching out to help another human being you’re sending ripples of positive change.

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the ‘true colors’ of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different...

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

I am thankful to God for the grace of being alive.

May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

Don’t try to live to make an impression on anyone. Accept God’s provision for your life. Don’t live or act beyond the measure of the Grace of Christ upon your life.

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

Michelle Obama blows my mind. Form and function, style and grace.

Faith is the receiver of grace; unbelief is the rejector.

I have to smile. He’s such a dork. But I’m starting to realize the one good thing that’s happened: he’s my dork.

Kind of just existed from day to day, on weird plateau of feeling nothingness.

Remember tonight…for it is the beginning of always,” he whispered… – ShaneThat damn man just ruined all other men for me. Once you tasted that man, he made all others go sour in your mouth....

Did you have the wrong kind? Really? I’ve never had the wrong kind. Never, ever. My worst one was right on the money.” Grace works the same way. It is what it is and it’s...

A family in my sister’s neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only...

A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each...

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Pure, unadulterated, consistent love for God and pure, unadulterated, consistent love for others is the summation of all the law God has given us in both the Old and New Testaments. Of course, the problem...

You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don’t grab the bone from him and tell...

We must look to God for His grace and His power to perfect godly qualities in our lives.

There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus

The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that I have submitted to it all; worse, I have loved with...

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be...

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in...

No, I might. To sue everyone responsible—from the person who lit the match to those who made my clothes. But I’d wait until the fire was out. Otherwise, he’d just stand there until I was...

The deepness and consistency of your repenting will have a direct impact on the liveliness of your faith and the brightness of your confidence. This is not because you repent so well, but because in...

Strange infatuation seems to grace the evening tide. I want you to be free, but it is your sorrow that has made a slave of me… I wish to know how to keep you… You...

I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye

Pull himself together? This was a man who looked permanently cemented together.

It’s the same difference!

Looking for Your FaceFrom the beginning of my lifeI have been looking for your facebut today I have seen itToday I have seenthe charm, the beauty,the unfathomable graceof the facethat I was looking forToday I...

When life doesn’t meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

You extol the Lord as Love, Mercy and Grace.

When a turbulent mind and wounded heart surrenders to grace, breathing is easy.

doctrinal integrity” (a term usually defined by those using it) trumps kindness and grace, faith has wandered out of bounds. Anything claiming to be truth that does not lead to compassion for our neighbors cannot...

Grace is the divine assistance that gives you advantage over those who are better than you.

We hope he continues to grace the city and plays a major role at the center. That will enhance the center and the city.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.

Grace does not contest the powers-that-be through an effective show of verifiable strength but through a persistent and subversive recoding of how one defines what strength and weakness are.

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf...

At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole...

And how long will your fingers be so tangled in the law that you can’t live out of My grace?

Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry...

The ones whose light will remain with me long after they have burnt out are the ones that had grace. Because it’s rare that the gift comes with grace. Some of the biggest arseholes I’ve...

But God’s love is big enough to touch any life, to make light out of any darkness. Jesus came that we might have life, so that no more would we have to die in depression,...

Heaven is the only place where prayers are not made.

When we really understand it, we will always find grace offensive. And that’s exactly the way it should be. If we start to feel comfortable with grace, then we’ve lost what it really means.