Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

I didn’t like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf’s touch, and Adam belonged to me.

I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.

Nothing says you’re sorry like a dead bunny.

We all can have accidents in life. God knew this, and so He sent Jesus as our Healer. His healing touch is God’s mercy to us. If you are hurt, ask God to heal you and then trust Him to do it in His way and in His time.

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

Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated.

Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many...

Suppose it should turn out that no such person as Christ ever lived. What harm would that do justice or mercy? Wouldn’t the tear of pity be as pure as now, and wouldn’t justice, holding aloft her scales, from which she blows even the dust of prejudice, be as noble, as admirable as now? Is...

Even in the most compassionate, humankind’s limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.

The first game was the usual story for us, a lot of being young mistakes and mercy ruling us, but the second game was almost completely different.

Nay, in many cases open denials of prayer prove the most excellent answers, and God’s not hearing us is the most signal audience. Therefore at the foot of every prayer subscribe “thy will be done,” and thou shalt enjoy preventing mercies that thou never soughtest, and converting mercies to change all for the best, resting...

I contend that those who Agape can only administer mercy and grace.”~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Love is faith in action.” ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

A king who is renowned for mercy,” said the Arobern, with heavy irony, “must also be renowned in equal measure for injustice.

And the fools… well, the fools are there for us to fleece and then to show mercy.

Me.” And she opened up her soul, laid herself bare.

In my day, we liked men who looked like men.

Not in this lifetime.

I’ll tell Hawke you want to go on daily bonding runs with him.

Do all the good you can while you still have the opportunity.

The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart.

God’s Grace is greater than all our sins. Repentance is one of the Christian’s highest privileges. A repentant Christian focuses on God’s mercy and God’s grace. Any moment in our lives when we bask in God’s mercy and grace is our highest moment. Higher than when we feel smug in our decent performance and cannot...

We have been redeemed from darkness to the light. So we must live as people of light!

May God open our mind and hearts to the gospel of salvation.

If you have the grace to hug someone, never miss this sacred moment.

If you cannot pray, simply recite Lord’s Prayer (Psalm 23:1-6):-A psalm of David. New International Version1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for...

…there is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

The idea of Christian perfection, which began in the ancient monasteries and spread to the world as an ideal, is one of the most appealing, demanding and ultimately hopeless notions of the spiritual life. By definition, only God is perfect—that is, complete and independent unto [God’s] self. Humans, on the other hand, are radically imperfect,...

In the tabernacle of grace, all your obstacles will be tackled. Wake up to see it happen live. You are victorious in all things!

A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named.

Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.

The times might be unpleasant, repulsive. The ghastly chaos, the abhorrent uncivility might be intolerable, might force us into argument or leave us panic-stricken.On such occasions people build within themselves a conviction, that the world outside is diabolical. The whimsical insults test our level of endurance causing us to plead for mercy, wanting us to...

Heaven is the only place where prayers are not made.

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such,...

Truth in Christ is not a matter of being near or far like in martial arts when you strive for a black belt. He saves us then we grow; not the other way around.

The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed now a power but to protect the suffering and uphold the weak, and this she did, not alone in hovels but in the brilliant court and world of fashion, for there...

We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He’s...

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.’ These men without possessions or power, these strangers on Earth, these sinners, these followers of Jesus, have in their life with him renounced their own dignity, for they are merciful. As if their own needs and their own distress were not enough, they take upon themselves...

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant.”] The original Hebrew word that has been translated “paths” means “well-worn roads’ or “wheel tracks,” such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God’s ways...

War has to have some decorum. Otherwise it’s back to the Bleakening for all of us, and Kresimir be damned.

That means that Cuba is a great team because if not it would have lost many times under the mercy rule. But that’s only happened twice. Our second-line pitchers did not come through and we couldn’t use our best pitchers today. That was the fundamental cause of our defeat.

There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.

The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by looking upon the uplifted serpent. That look implied faith. They lived because they believed God’s word, and trusted in the means provided for their recover. So to sinner may look to Christ, and...