The ‘Dance of Love’ is much more of a dialogue, one takes the lead and the other follows. One dictates a step and the other carries it out. One determines the direction, the other determines...

I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over the shelves, seeking possibilities for escape.

She will always be the rainbow in my clouds.

I’m not thrilled. And I totally reserve the right to angst over all this later. But honestly, Mom? Right now, I’m so happy to see you that I wouldn’t care if you’re secretly a ninja...

Vaughn folded his arms. ‘The reason why you’ve lasted longer than most of your erstwhile colleagues is because you don’t do drama. I don’t like drama. I get enough drama at home. My wife could...

Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God’s grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God’s grace even after we’re saved.

Though the gospel amnesty which grace proclaims makes no exceptions, for Divine grace has no limits, there are limits to the time within which the amnesty avails. And if sinners despise grace there is nothing...

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Maybe she will be broken forever. but if it is so, she will adorn it with radiant elegance; and all that man will ever discern is her effortless grace and the softness of her smile.

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

It seemed possible to me, in the dry heat of that courtroom, that heaven was a metaphor for the grace of perspective you get when you die

It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.

We are going to make mistakes no matter what, so it’s better to be strong in faith despite our mistakes than weak in faith because of them.

To the degree that God gives us the grace to see Him, our lives and our ministries will become fruitful and effective.

His grace lifts us in spite of us…it moves our lives forward on the conveyor belt of promise, even as we cling to our nagging doubts and unbelief.

Will and Grace.

Grace doesn’t obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.

If you, free as you are of every weighthad stayed below, then that would be as strangeas living flame on earth remaining still.”And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.

Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so.

It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God’s law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust...

Truly I am God’s Beauty, His Trophy, His Outstretched Arms…I am here for His Glory and Pleasure.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Grace can give life when serviced but can as well take life when its taken for granted

Grace is waiting for you. It’s always there. It’s always waiting. It doesn’t pokes holes into our lives. We are the ones who poke the holes and let the light in, let the magic in....

Grace is not just enough, it is more than enough. 2 Peter 1:2

Don’t have to see,” the pilot grunted. “Olga knows the way.””Funny name for an aircraft,” Grace commented. “Is it after your wife?””My gun.”Grace stared at him. “You named your plane after a gun?””It was a...

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

Hope is the grace of endurance in the stormy days.

Lorcan nodded, “It’ss a beautiful night,” he said. “The stars have all come out for you, Darcy.” He turned to go, then had a fresh thought. “Oh and Tempest, a word to the wise…” Grace...

The world of light and starry grace;within your mind I live to trace.Your thought’s speed in thunder’s glory,lightening my being with dream’s story.I embrace the tree carrying your nameYour unspoken wish : the heart of...

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: ‘grace.

West couldn’t simply leave the man like this, he didn’t have it in him.”Goodman Heath,” he said as he approached, and the peasant looked up at him, surprised. He fumbled for his hat and made...

When life tries to define you with its hardship, you gotta push back, look it straight in the eye and say, ‘No matter what life throws at me, I’m going to keep telling myself that...

A pastor struggled for years with sexual addiction, eventually becoming so despondent that hospitalized himself. He joined an inpatient group and was mostly silent as others shared.When he decided not to come one day, the...

We are usually angered when someone insults us, until Divine Grace comes upon us. When we receive Grace, we no longer feel hurt when others insult us but remain quiet and peaceful, as though the...

Quietly…softly, God taps on our tense shoulders with His love.

Love is a Dance set on the stage of Forgiveness and Grace.

The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace–bottle after bottle of pure...

All roads out of hell lead home.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

He was everything I’d ever wanted, and everything I hadn’t even known I needed.

Have you forgotten what it feels like to be alive? The grace of life shining on you; each breath vitalizing you with possibility? Remember!

What can you do how much can you give to bring grace and salvation unto even one soul

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence...

It may not of happened the way you thought it would, but in the long run it will work out as it should.

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges...

My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.

Truth in Christ is not a matter of being near or far like in martial arts when you strive for a black belt. He saves us then we grow; not the other way around.