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.

When you’re lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep… “I should have” “If only I’d” “I wish I’d”…grab one of them and turn it into an “I...

The only way to be productive is to realize we don’t HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.

Religion consists much in holy affection; but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises. Friendship between earthly friends consists much in affection; but those strong exercises of...

He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.

There’s enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.

Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.

A bolt that raised her heart to blazing heightAnd made the vertical the very thrust of hope,And found its path at last(Slow work of Grace).

I spend more time with the living, than the dead now.

No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take...

Some changes occur suddenly like a brilliant flash of lightning striking across a dark sky. These changes are stunning, exciting but can be quickly forgotten. Other changes happen slowly, gradually, like a flower blooming in...

How we fall into grace. You can’t work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

The term ‘Grace’ has been explained by people just to fulfill the vested interest. But what is its actual meaning? Thakur (Sri Ramkrishna) has said ‘When God within the body wishes to liberate himself, then...

Live with GRACE & Die with PRIDE.

We must approach our meditation realizing that ‘grace,’ ‘mercy,’ and ‘faith’ are not permanent inalienable possessions which we gain by our efforts and retain as though by right, provided that we behave ourselves. They are...

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.

Big mistakes are an outstanding opportunity to showcase your ability to recover and have grace under pressure.

Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I’m so sorry I’m not her.

Strive to secure Grace; do not strive to secure any lesser fruit.

He let his guitar swing behind him and cupped my face with his hand. “I love you, Grace Taylor.” It barely came out above a whisper from his lips but it echoed throught the microphone....

It’s just startling. It isn’t supposed to work. This wasn’t supposed to work.

Suddenly, as one, all the Greys stop talking and gape at Christian. What? Christian is singing softly to himself at the piano. Silence descends on us all as we strain to hear his soft, lyrical...

In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love (‘be encouraged’) but not the discipline of his love (‘and sin no more’). But with the whole scope of his...

Let the ruins come to lifeIn the beauty of Your nameRising up from the ashesGod forever You reign

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons....

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.