God is writing His story on the pages of our lives.

If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation...

He sleeps with you?””Robert?”Stacey rolled her eyes at that. “No, Ghandi-of course Robert!

judgment, as it is portrayed in the parables of Jesus (not to mention the rest of the New Testament) never comes until after acceptance: grace remains forever the sovereign consideration. The difference between the blessed...

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God’s valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn’t know what it is...

When it’s my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only wish will be to die with grace, covered in the blood of my...

I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in...

Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

but I’m not an asshole. At least not theologically speaking.

One of these days you who are now a ‘babe’ in Christ shall be a ‘father’ in the church. Hope for this great thing; but hope for it as a gift of grace, and not...

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience...

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don’t get to say when or how.

Although claiming my true identity as a child of God, I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation. I still think about his love as conditional and about...

Until we put off the garment of law and tradition and put on that of relationship and grace, we’ll be living under the bondage of religion

There is no activity that is somehow more Christian than another. God looks at the heart, and that is the good part that Mary knew. he simply asks us to come as we are and...

Grace is not a little prayer you say before you eat. It is a way of life. Eph 2:8,9

suppress sin”. If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer.

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...