Grace silences the voice of accusation and wipes all the evidence of guilt

I need God’s grace and something baked with peanut butter and chocolate.

The burden of sin leads you to the need of a savior

Grace is not a doctrine or a religion. It is a person, Jesus Christ.

Come, come into this circle of grace and friendship.Come bringing only your open heart.You owe us nothing but truth, you need no heavy armor here.Show us your beautiful scars, the evidence of adventures you’ve survived.Tell...

I’m never one, distinct color but a dichotomy of dark and bright. The hues follow me, reflecting my mood, displaying every tone and shade I feel. I can breathe in red and exhale blue, or...

The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb… And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed...

Stuckley drew back his sword with evident satisfaction. “She really is your Achilles’ heel, isn’t she Furey?””No.” Lorcan said, preparing his own attack. “Not my Achilles’ heel.The love of my life. And I’ll do whatever...

Justice is the virtue we ‘d rather have done unto others than practiced on ourselves.

It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

The gospel is not mere forgiveness or grace, empty of content, but always refers to Jesus. So the gospel is good news about a human person who is God in our history, our world and...

We must be willing to get rid ofthe life we’ve planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for us.The old skin has to be shedbefore the new one can come.If we fix on...

I don’t care what it looks, I don’t care what it feels like, I believe God.

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

What grace I have is enough.

Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way

Sweetheart, I remember every second from the first moment I laid eyes on you and I’ve been trying to get my world upright ever since.

When we fail, we cut the string. Then God ties it up again, making a knot and thereby bringing us a little closer to Him. Again and again our failures cut the string, and with...

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

That was great!” he laughed.

Creation is not abandoned by God, it is not godless, for apart from God it would not be at all; it is not deprived of grace for it owes its existence to grace. Rather, creation...

For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that...

Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with...

Got plans for the rest of the day?”I looked back at him and my heart just stopped. Then it just started again thudding erratically. What the hell does that mean? I feel like I’m having...

Sometimes grace is having the strength to persevere through the storm.Sometimes it’s having the guts to rebuild, to take a chance, to follow your nose and your heart rather than your head.Sometimes grace is finding...

I don’t like this war. I don’t like the cold-blooded scheming at the beginning and the carnage at the end and the grumbling and the jealousies and the pettishness in the middle. I hate the...

What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men...

Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally,...

If you get a second chance, grab it with the first and second hands. Never let it go till all is done and done well. Second chances come with the last graces!

What is God’s part and what is man’s part? God’s part is grace. Man’s part is faith.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Never compromise the glorious Gospel. It is the Gospel “from” Christ and not merely a Gospel “about” Christ. Gal 1:6-12

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great...

Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utterly merciful act of love can fashion a new...

You can actually accomplish all that you desire in life.

Daily prayer, daily grace.

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ’s gift, not perfection which is Satan’s trap.

We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn.

This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.I never knew there were so many different ways to...

Repentance in Greek means something much closer to “thinking differently afterward” than it does “changing your cheating ways.” Of course repentance can look like a prostitute becoming a librarian, but it can also look like...

And she’s like, you know, the ‘Grace’ in U2’s song, the one that ‘carries the world on her hips’.” – Diana Rigsby, M.D. Ph.D.

Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.

The world isn’t scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

God can make you whole again. Past experiences may not disappear, but they don’t have the same effect on you.

Don’t leave me.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?” (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is...

Your job is to get off your self righteous butt and start reaching out to the difficult people because my ministry wasn’t about a bunch of nice people getting together once a week to sing...

Wish I could say it was a deviously clever move, but the truth is I’ve got grace management issues.