We do good works, not in order to be saved, but because we are saved; not in order to earn God’s favor, but with the favor of His help.

She wanted to tell him what happened wasn’t really his fault, but she knew that wasn’t the way this kind of guilt worked. Intellectually, he already knew that. It was his emotions that were tripping...

Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty is like watching that fish die right there on the cement in front of you.

My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God’s love I’ve ever encountered in this world. She was a magnet for lost souls, a petite fortress of strength...

Obedience makes our heart receptive to what God has already done. It doesn’t move Him; His heart is always aflame toward us. Generally, this revelation is not taught correctly by well-meaning ministers. The incorrect way...

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today...

Our acceptance with God is sure only through His beloved Son, and good works are but the result of the working of His sin-pardoning love. They are no credit to us, and we have nothing...

Her father, indulgent in his concern, had opened his library to her, and at last she could read to her heart’s content. In all, these past few weeks had been some of the most peaceable...

I had to take the first step for myself.

Grace met me where struggle left me

Only the redeeming, all-powerful, transforming grace of God can raise our sin-besotted heart from the dead, give us eternal life, and set our gaze on Jesus, our blessed hope.

Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder.

Gospel” is not a sermon title or the name of a book in the Bible. The Gospel is the person of Jesus Christ and it is the power of God to bring people to salvation....

To live this life. To live it with wholeness and gratitude and trust. In the pain and the glory. In the mess and the grace. In the sacred and the desperation. This is the stuff...

But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person’s view the infinite reason there is that he should be holy in a high degree. And the more...

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life’s sorrow with grace.

Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you.””You already hit him with a car.

Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don’t focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.

…The means of choice:She might choose to ascendThe falling dream,By some angelic power without a nameReverse the motion, plunge into upwardness,Know height without an end,Density melt to air, silence yield a voice–Within her fall she...

Within a moment of silence, all is known that needs to be known. Within a moment of breath, all of life surrounds you…from the stars, the sun, the trees and all of humanity. Within a...

Give me the grace to believe that you really do know what is best for me and that I do not. May I cling to Your character and rejoice in Your pursuit of me.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows – if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads. They go to stock-car races and the horror movies and the wrestling matches...

Petals don’t ask Where to landThey just fall With grace.

I did not have all the answers. I did not know if I’d deserved God’s grace or wrath, or what would become of me if I ever fled this town.But I did know how to...

Find the Grace in the things you can’t change, and help somebody if you can.

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.

Friends help each other when they are…you know…going up international hit men and stuff.

Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is...

Holy fellatio! You are standing there licking him up with your eyes! Do you freaking hear the old seventies porn music playing in your head?

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.