So … what exactly is a Moby?” That’s like grace. Not that grace is a pretentious vegan techno-rocker, but you get the idea. Grace is everywhere, all around us, all of the time. We only...

A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.’ – Bread & Wine (day 5)

God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his...

I’ll look to the crossAs my failure is lostIn the light ofYour glorious grace

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

Oh, the best dancers know/what grace/every stumble/contains.

When you can cross the highwire without falling off, you are in a state of perfect balance, perfect grace. It is the same with obedience. When you submit, submit totally, you enter that same equilibrium,...

Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.

legal declaration by God through Jesus Christ!

If you’re still, and if you don’t hope too much, peace will come to you. It’s a grace. But you have to choose happiness.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

Lord may your grace and power be mighty upon us to fulfill our highest calling.

We all get knock down in life. We must never stay down. Find the grace to rise up. You have the chance to start again.

Aeschylus writes, “In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.

The wave is the signature of every experience of life. By understanding the nature of waves and their characteristics, and applying that understanding to our lives, we can navigate life with a little more grace.

Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow.When he finally fell silent, the night felt dead. Sitting was intolerable. I stood up, paced, clenched and unclenched my hands...

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

Through God’s grace, he gives us a wealth of resources to bear any burden he allows. Therefore, if God doesn’t empty our cup of suffering or take it from us, he will give ample grace...

Scripture also makes clear that our faith is not a work. Our new status is based wholly on the merits of Christ and not on anything about us. While a paintbrush may be the instrumental...

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated...

I think the best fiction is about the absolute irrepressibility of love in the face of every circumstance to the contrary. Even in someone as dark, on the face of it, as Faulkner often is,...

right” we are, or we can choose to love. Sometimes, it is impossible to do both at the same time.

And then I realized—,”which is the part of stories one never quite believes.I had the idea that the world’s so full of painit must sometimes make a kind of singing.And that the sequence helps, as...

Even when you don’t see Him working, He’s busy working on your behalf. Forever grateful for God’s grace!

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...