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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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The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool...

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Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work...

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Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he ...

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J. M. CoetzeeLife and Times of Michael K

As the hound follows the hare, never ceasing in its running, ever drawing nearer in the chase, with ...

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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. An...

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There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of...

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For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it ...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...

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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING thing...

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Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense!That all this good of evil shall produce,And evil turn to goo...

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And now without redemption all mankindMust have been lost, adjudged to death and hellBy doom severe,...

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John MiltonParadise Lost and Other Poems

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge...

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John Piper (artist)A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

What then do we learn from Paul's unbroken pattern of beginning and ending his letters this way ("Gr...

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Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grac...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge...

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John Piper (artist)A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

What then do we learn from Paul's unbroken pattern of beginning and ending his letters this way ("Gr...

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Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grac...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge...

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John Piper (theologian)A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

What then do we learn from Paul's unbroken pattern of beginning and ending his letters this way ("Gr...

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Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grac...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge...

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John Piper (theologian)A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

What then do we learn from Paul's unbroken pattern of beginning and ending his letters this way ("Gr...

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Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grac...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gra...

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How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by s...

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The example of Jesus Christ is the only perfect example that ever existed in human nature. It is the...

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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of...

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Jonathan Edwards (theologian)The Religious Affections

The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the concei...

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But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infin...

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The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man...

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Josef PieperLeisure: The Basis Of Culture

We must be willing to get rid ofthe life we’ve planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for us...

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. ...

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And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its ...

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