You’re not going to die,” I told her, lifting my head to look at her. “I’m not done writing songs about you yet.

The fallacy in Peter’s mind was this: he believed his relationship was dependent on his consistency in producing the qualities he thought had earned him the Lord’s approval.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

Grace is more than just leniency and unconditional acceptance. Divine grace is God’s relentless and loving pursuit of His enemies, who are unthankful, unworthy, and unlovable. Grace is not just God’s ability to save sinners,...

Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It’s one-way love.

We should not aspire for acclaim and praise from those around us, but do service only to secure the Grace of God and not for any other reward from any one.

Besides,” she says, eyes twinkling mischievously, “it’d never work out between us. I’m still holding a candle for Professor Haven.””How could I compete with a middle-aged English professor?””Well,” she says, “you could do, but it’d...

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact...

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the...

…pray for the grace to realize that no matter where you are, you are in the presence of the Lord.

Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself.

People helping people, builds stronger communities

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Despite what you think you know, sometimes your plans may be interrupted. Because you were designed for a purpose. You are on a mission to achieve greatness. No matter what obstacles lie in your path,...

common.”To me, that’s like bickering about what color God’s eyes are. (They’re hazel, in case you were wondering.)

I live in a world in which 40 men control wealth equal to that of nearly 80 countries, where to maintain their hegemony, countless acts of mayhem and massacre must occur every day. This is...

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.

464Joy is found in the breath of acceptance knowing that all is well in our world, if we surrender with grace.

The great heroes of other ancient cultures were strong and clever and virtuous, but the great Jewish heroes copulated with slaves (Abraham), showed they were willing to allow others to have sex with their wives...

You are accepted.

There is in true grace an infinite circle: a man by thirsting receives, and receiving thirsts for more.

The greatness of the man’s power is the measure of his surrender.

Joy is a gift given not an emotion earned.

The nuns taught us there are two ways through life, the way of Nature and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you’ll follow. Grace doesn’t try to please itself. Accepts being...

We’ve been experiencing God’s grace that’s how I would describe it.

What is “grace”? It is God’s own life, shared by us. God’s life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such...

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.