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

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W. H. AudenCollected Poems

Then this must be my answer: We know that the attributes of God are infinite and it has always seeme...

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W. Somerset MaughamCatalina: A Romance

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace...

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My vision of the gathered church that had come to me... had been replaced by a vision of the gathere...

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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in ...

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

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too...

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At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides pote...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibili...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-c...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear eithe...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this wor...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it wa...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to re...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attri...

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Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide ...

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AberjhaniSplendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dea...

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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

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

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible...

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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Ill...

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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of w...

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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and...

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As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacrednes...

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We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and u...

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God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

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Anne LamottGrace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells woul...

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Anne LamottGrace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don’t love—until a few ...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was...

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Anne LamottSmall Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101.

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Anne LamottSome Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance.

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive...

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I w...

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Sometimes it seems that light can transform anything! That it is an undeniable and irreducible metap...

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Anne RiceThe Tale of the Body Thief

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to b...

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Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether...

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The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, makin...

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Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner’s salvation—but the clear practical knowledge of the fact t...

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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about thes...

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I do understand that they fall when I'm least able to pay attention because poems fall not from a tr...

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What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from ach...

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She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid t...

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Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured ...

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Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's for...

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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has ...

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We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choi...

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The grace of God has been tested in the crucible of human experience, and has been found to be more ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgi...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We are living in an age of grace, in which God promises that “whosoever will” may come and receive H...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Some of the most radiant Christians I have ever met were “wheelchair” saints. May God give you grace...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

When you pick up the cross of unpopularity, wherever you may be, you will find God’s grace is there,...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

This is still the age of grace. God’s offer of forgiveness and a new life still stands. However, the...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Throughout Scripture we read of warnings preceding disaster. Such alerts from God are part of His gr...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not willingly go to the cross so we co...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done fo...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choi...

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The grace of God has been tested in the crucible of human experience, and has been found to be more ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgi...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We are living in an age of grace, in which God promises that “whosoever will” may come and receive H...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Some of the most radiant Christians I have ever met were “wheelchair” saints. May God give you grace...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

When you pick up the cross of unpopularity, wherever you may be, you will find God’s grace is there,...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

This is still the age of grace. God’s offer of forgiveness and a new life still stands. However, the...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Throughout Scripture we read of warnings preceding disaster. Such alerts from God are part of His gr...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not willingly go to the cross so we co...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done fo...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choi...

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The grace of God has been tested in the crucible of human experience, and has been found to be more ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgi...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We are living in an age of grace, in which God promises that “whosoever will” may come and receive H...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Some of the most radiant Christians I have ever met were “wheelchair” saints. May God give you grace...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes