grace

I assigned him to help me trim the Brussels sprouts, but instead he kept trying to throw them away when he thought I wasn__ looking. __russels sprouts, Grace, really? These are our friends. Why are you doing this to them?

Life,disassembled andreassembled into a thing of beauty,reflect GOD love in a manifestation of unlimited grace.

Suddenly, as one, all the Greys stop talking and gape at Christian. What? Christian is singing softly to himself at the piano. Silence descends on us all as we strain to hear his soft, lyrical voice. I've heard him sing before, haven't they? He stops, suddenly conscious of the deathly hush that's fallen over the room. Kate glances questioningly at me and I shrug. Christian turns on the stool and frowns, embarrassed to realize he's become the center of attention.'Go on,' Grace urges softly. 'I've never heard you sing, Christian. Ever.

Quietly...softly, God taps on our tense shoulders with His love.

Paul saith, 'Not of works, lest any man should boast.' Now, faith excludes all boasting. The hand which receives charity does not say, 'I am to be thanked for accepting the gift'; that would be absurd. When the hand conveys bread to the mouth it does not say to the body, 'Thank me; for I feed you.' It is a very simple thing that the hand does though a very necessary thing; and it never arrogates glory to itself for what it does. So God has selected faith to receive the unspeakable gift of His grace, because it cannot take to itself any credit, but must adore the gracious God who is the giver of all good.

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Don't let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

Certainly there is life and there is death, but even in death, if we look closely enough, we will find grace.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the keys of the kingdom and to the life of restful power in ministry and life that those keys open to us.

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

Secrets aren__ the same as lying,' Vaughn commented, because they both had the muddiest of ethics, which was an odd thing to have in common.

If you, free as you are of every weighthad stayed below, then that would be as strangeas living flame on earth remaining still."And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.

When life tries to define you with its hardship, you gotta push back, look it straight in the eye and say, __o matter what life throws at me, I__ going to keep telling myself that I will overcome._ And every time you own that truth, you write your own life script.

The wave is the signature of every experience of life. By understanding the nature of waves and their characteristics, and applying that understanding to our lives, we can navigate life with a little more grace.

The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.

A Sunrise is God's way of saying, "Let's start again.