I was thinking how most people don’t make you feel much of anything at all. Don’t make you feel like time spent with them has grace, like every moment in their company is a gift....

… the pursuit of holiness must bre anchored in grace; otherwise it is doomed to failure.

There is grace for the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike, and the father loves both sons well.

Your life has a natural motion. Surrendering reveals how flowing this life could be.

Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had once been colored flowers, but the color was washed out now,...

I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in – rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don’t know their...

The anxious heart, in its flailings, loses its hold on whatever grace God has bestowed upon it, and is sapped of the strength to “resist the temptations of the Evil One, who is all the...

Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to.

The cross is the place where heaven meets earth and grace erupts. The cross is the place where Jesus does not simply meet our suffering, but becomes our suffering so as to transform the world.

Secrets aren’t the same as lying,’ Vaughn commented, because they both had the muddiest of ethics, which was an odd thing to have in common.

All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love — I scarcely dare say it —...

In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,...

The old-time-religion and today’s cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common – they’re both religion. I want neither.

But – but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you’re going to mess up. That’s what grace is for. We’re going to fall, but we’ve...

Do you remember? Love is love is love. Pain is pain is pain. Knowledge is knowledge. It doesn’t matter what shape or form it takes, what matters is how you use it, what you do...

Grace not only embraces you at your most shameful, it’s the most effective antidote to sin.

Yes, by the grace of God.

By the Grace of the Saints, I sing the Praises of the Ocean of virtue; after countless incarnations, I have been released.

I wanted to grab his stupid ears and smash his stupid head against the door until his stupid brains leaked out. Instead, I did nothing.

Evil can never hide itself for too long, Shane. Its ego is too big not to be heard or seen for so long

While it’s true that you may lose your religion during the course of a lifetime, you never lose your salvation. Once you let Jesus in your kitchen, he just keeps on making peanut butter and...

When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, “Dear God, that family needs grace.”She replied firmly, “That family needs casseroles,” and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing...

Elegance is timeless

Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination.

God’s grace does not require a condition to abound. However to obtain the promises of his blessings, you have to strive for it, fight for it, work hard for it and insist upon it.

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God’s grace is poured out on the humble.

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

We may not have the power to move mountains, but if we have the power to take someone’s hand and named them loved and forgiven we have power enough.

The Holy Spirit will always point people to the finish work of Jesus

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should...

Jesus shows us that there’s never a change of mind unless there’s a change of heart, and there will never be a change of heart without a conversation between trusted friends.Halter, Hugh (2014-02-01). Flesh: Bringing...

For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the...

Pursued by grace and supernatural power from God, I will passionately pursued my most cherished dreams.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Echo of the waves appears in the sky, their lights reflected in your eyes. I’m back in our world and happy again. The sound of your voice, compassionate embrace… The power in your touch, serenity...

You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father.

When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What’s good seems lost and gone forever. This is a story about the...

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a...

…stooping very low, He engraves with careHis Name, indelible, upon our dust;And from the ashes of our self-despair,Kindles a flame of hope and humble trust.He seeks no second site on which to build,But on the...

How you perceive The Father to be, determines what you believe you’ll receive from Him.”From “Freedom for LIFE -all of God, inside you

thy kingdom come,” and be resentful toward God and those he allows to enter the kingdom in his way and his timing?

God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues...

Expressing anger is an art. The more grace you apply to it, the more effective it shall be.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the...

Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

Maybe it’s not about being worthy, or what you have to offer. If it was, wouldn’t everyone be turned away?” -Niall

The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was to those whom society considered real sinners. They had done nothing to merit...