May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

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.

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

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.

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame, without blame, and without fear. I am all loved, all accepted, and all in service to...

Typically, images or paintings are designated as anamorphic when, in order for the image to appear, a particular line of sight must be adopted. The image only shows up when approached from the angle dictated...

there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.” There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys...

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.If you reject the ragamuffin gospel and...

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

Walk the streets by moonlight, if you dare, and you will see sinners then. Watch when the night is dark, and the wind is howling, and the picklock is grating in the door, and you...

You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in...

A soul that becomes the place where divine grace is harbored and encouraged joins the class of the immortals and lives on into eternal greatness.

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

Happiness is a state of awareness, which comes from tranquility, service, love, grace, and forgiveness.

Law does, “because God said so!”; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so.

When she remembers to look at herself in a spiritual light, she sees the deep capacity for love this pain has brought her. The realization fills her with wonder. Now she can rise in the...

Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.

Your purpose is great than your problems.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

nominal Christianity.” In countries to which Christian civilization has spread, large numbers of people have covered themselves with a decent, but thin, veneer of Christianity. They have allowed themselves to become somewhat involved, enough to...

The freedom to talk with God and of God is being opened by God’s joy. It cannot be forced. For true awareness cannot be coercive; it does not come about by either authoritarian pressure or...

Life is full of unexpected. The grace of God is available to everyone to stand the test of time.

Everything God does—past, present, or future, whether in grace or in judgment—is to reveal His glory.

Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Fine,” she said. She threw her bag in the backseat and climbed in after.

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

When we appropriate God’s great enablers-His grace and His peace-we can achieve gentleness and calmness even during hard times.

God hijacks and bends evil to work peace and healing. If God were only a God of justice, He could punish evil but do no more. Only a God of grace can use our evil...

Thankfully, God’s restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could’ve been worse.

Do not crave for recognition and respect from others; crave rather for winning grace from the Lord.

Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom.

nested dolls” that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a...

Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to ‘ask, seek, knock’ in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and...

Grace is an empowerment to be above and beyond reproach, to live your life at a standard that pleases God.

Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for...

Sometimes it seems that light can transform anything! That it is an undeniable and irreducible metaphor for grace. But do the people of the ranchitos know this? Is it for beauty that they do it?...

When we bring it all back to ‘Just Jesus’ it is amazing how much grace God can work in and through our lives.

They may throw sticks, stones, or bricks, but nothing they do will hurt you. You are protected by God. He is forever got you covered and the enemy is defeated. Their hatred towards you is...

We’re so worried about the legal details of crossing doctrinal t’s and dotting sociopolitical i’s that we miss the big picture. The love picture. The one thing Jesus was really clear about: LOVE. If we...

In Him we have peace, in Him we have power; Preserved by His grace, throughout the dark hour; In all our temptation He keeps us to proveHis utmost salvation, His fulness of love.Pronounce the glad...

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misinterpreted by men, and we can safely leave our...

Our job on earth isn’t to criticize, reject, or judge. Our purpose is to offer a helping hand, compassion, and mercy. We are to do unto others as we hope they would do unto us.

Grace is never wanting. God always gives sufficient grace to whoever is willing to receive it.

When we help others, we enlarge our boundaries within the reach of our helpers

Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother’s love for her child.

Life should be lived more from the heart than the head.

I am relentlessly determine to be occupied with Jesus Christ and His Glorious Gospel and nothing else.