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“Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.”
“One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ...”
“How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.”
“My last words to him were to assure him that we would bring Sally to join him later. And you know what your dad said? He said that he would wait for as long as it took."Grace bit her lip. "But she ...”
“I gave her a look. Rachel.Grace, you have to admit this is pretty weird. Say it. You disappearing from the hospital and Olivia is and Sam suddenly shows up with you and, well, the freaky hallucino...”
“Pure, unadulterated, consistent love for God and pure, unadulterated, consistent love for others is the summation of all the law God has given us in both the Old and New Testaments. Of course, the ...”
“After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.”
“You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physics; in physical laws every action is m...”
“Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.”
“Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.”
“If a man were to sow a field, he could not excuse his neglect by saying that it would be useless to sow unless God caused the seed to grow. He would not be justified in neglecting tillage because t...”
“I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't kno...”
“God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace".R. Alan Woods [2012]”
“possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.”
“Father son oily ghost amen.”
“You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.”
“I mean, we dont have to worry about it until winter, anyway, she said. I was just wondering if you felt cured.I didnt know what to tell her. I didnt feel cured. I felt like what Cole said almost cu...”
“She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt worked. Intellectually, he already knew that. It was his emotions that were trippin...”
“There but for the grace of God go I.”
“Then this must be my answer: We know that the attributes of God are infinite and it has always seemed strange to me that men have never given Him credit for common sense. It is hard to believe that...”
