I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.I have also found that what I write is...

But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith have committed the keeping of their souls to Him.He pleads their cause, and by the mighty arguments of...

Gratitude goes beyond the ‘mine’ and ‘thine’ and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of...

We subscribe into God’s unlimited plan when we kneel in humility, live in grace and reach-out in love

If we want to give grace to our children, then first we must be willing to receive it ourselves from God.

Jesus conformed to our image so we could be transformed into His likeness.

Grace (the Gospel) is under attack today simply because it reveals the GOODNESS of God. Nothing reveals the GOODNESS of God more than grace.

For to do things with care is the closest thing to love that I know the cape of grace falling softly about the shoulders as we focus on the task at hand whether it be...

Be grateful for the twists in the road. They teach us humility and grace. And any dancer in this life requires both

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.

Maybe home isn’t a place. Maybe it’s a feeling you have inside of you, being around the people who matter to you

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.

God’s grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and...

Maybe we are in a grace period.

All things acceptable to God the Father must come from God the Son, whether us or our works.

Don’t let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.

God loves you in spite of your mistakes

Athena came to stand by her side. She reached out and ran a light touch over the read wrap. ‘Nice dress.”Grace frowned in disbelief. ‘They’re fighting to the death and you’re admiring my clothes?’Athena laughed....

What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

I’ve also represented people who have committed terrible crimes but nonetheless struggle to recover and to find redemption. I have discovered, deep in the hearts of many condemned and incarcerated people, the scattered traces of...

As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.

I’ve attended seven schools in ten years,” I explain. “So you can rest assured I know you. You’re the girl who thinks being cruel is the same thing as being witty. You think being loud...

It’s not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: “This is what you should wear...

With my guitar, I could write my own stories, my own poems, and my own destiny. No one could take away the feelings, the emotions or the truth of my notes. They could hide secrets...

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.

…do we realize that this cheap grace has turned back upon us like a boomerang? The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of the organized Church is only...

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It’s a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I’m glad to be a part of it.

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

God is the comic shepherd who gets more of a kick out of that one lost sheep once he finds it again than out of the ninety and nine who had the good sense not...

GRACE means God does the work. FAITH means I let Him.

The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not...

Pray for God’s grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside.

You have FALLEN from Grace when you seek to be Justification by your own self effort (the Law). Gal 5:4 AMP

Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very...

I sometimes wonder if God calls us into the church because it represents not the people of God at their best but us at our worst. I wonder if he calls us to become embedded...

The breath of life is unlimited grace.

All that we have and don’t have is a grace. Even the awareness of grace is a grace in which we should give thanks.”

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source...

Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit; but my impact after depart is my particular to paradise.

Grace knocks us flat, preventing any form of self-congratulation. All the good we achieve is to be attributed to God rather than to ourselves. What makes our lives good is not anything we are ourselves...

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played....

The hand on my hair moved to my back, and I realized someone was singing softly. The voice was familiar, and something about it made my chest ache. Well, that was to be expected. Angels’...

From beginning to end, our Christian lives— highs and lows, fasting and fornication— are a tapestry of grace.Charis: God’s Scandalous Grace for Us (p. 31).

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

So,” she says, “What’s got you so busy?””What?” he says, “Oh, um, I was trying to perfect my telepathy.” Grace gasps and bulges her eyes out very wide. “Are…you okay?” he asks, finally, after she...