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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back ...

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The ones whose light will remain with me long after they have burnt out are the ones that had grace....

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BonoBono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.

At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinn...

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But if I've learned anything about the world of grace, it's that failure is always a chance for a do...

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Brennan ManningAll Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestan...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched,...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local chu...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but ...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gosp...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people sta...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will tr...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotio...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.

Luckily Shasta had lived all his life too far south in Calormen to have heard the tales that were wh...

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C. S. LewisThe Horse and His Boy

Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is worthy o...

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Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better

the grace is being able to like rock music,symphony music, jazz …anything that contains the original...

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Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity...

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Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever ...

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In Him we have peace, in Him we have power; Preserved by His grace, throughout the dark hour; In all...

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She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this ...

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Charles de LintThe Mystery of Grace

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human...

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Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form....

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And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God...

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It seems to happen sudden—a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save hims...

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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in p...

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There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, no...

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Dallas WillardThe Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grac...

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A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to c...

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Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Th...

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What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of ...

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We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from ...

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...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moment...

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Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its ter...

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She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antido...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, ...

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How can you seek God if he's already here? It's like standing n the ocean and crying out, 'I want to...

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How can you seek God if he's already here? It's like standing in the ocean and crying out, 'I want t...

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Deepak ChopraWhy Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

One that society can't forgive, but I can.

During his time with the French army, years before, one of the sergeants had explained to the younge...

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My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the...

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...do we realize that this cheap grace has turned back upon us like a boomerang? The price we are ha...

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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left al...

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Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church

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Dietrich BonhoefferThe Cost of Discipleship

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' These men without possessions or power, thes...

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Dietrich BonhoefferThe Cost of Discipleship

Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjacks' wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness o...

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By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entit...

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Dietrich BonhoefferThe Cost of Discipleship

It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true...

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Dietrich BonhoefferThe Cost of Discipleship

The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in...

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Cyrano: The leaves---Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.Cyrano: Yes---they...

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Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of let...

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And yet, because I love thee, I obtainFrom that same love this vindicating grace,To live on still in...

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A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the youn...

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When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that famil...

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Our acceptance with God is sure only through His beloved Son, and good works are but the result of t...

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But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith hav...

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At the very crisis, when Satan seemed about to triumph, the Son of God came with the embassage of di...

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Let no one take the limited, narrow position that any of the works of man can help in the least poss...

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It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God...

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Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability...

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Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is...

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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are bec...

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To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

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Frederick BuechnerA Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and wher...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

God is the comic shepherd who gets more of a kick out of that one lost sheep once he finds it again ...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotles...

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A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equ...

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Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Hi...

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Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to mov...

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Fulton J. SheenA Preface to Religion

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought,...

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And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy...

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We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most...

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Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable ...

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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of...

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I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusio...

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