grace

Knowledge.Grace. True union with the divine. I find that sort of prayer so much more difficult than the other, because it requires an extreme emotional and spiritual vulnerability. It's frighting,because we're trained not to expose the weakest parts of ourselves, the things that cause us pain and shame and suffering. It's those same things that often block our access to God-- basically, we stand in our own way.

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.

Grace is never wanting. God always gives sufficient grace to whoever is willing to receive it.

The fallacy in Peter's mind was this: he believed his relationship was dependent on his consistency in producing the qualities he thought had earned him the Lord's approval.

God save her from annoying Alphas.

When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? for us? The clouds open when we mouth thanks. p. 58

Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful...

With my guitar, I could write my own stories, my own poems, and my own destiny. No one could take away the feelings, the emotions or the truth of my notes. They could hide secrets and provoke images of words that never should be whispered. I could compose the melody of my aching heart and write into it my own happily ever after since no one seemed to think after all my suffering I deserved one. That's okay, I would make my own.

Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.

I wish I could just fling myself into bed with you, but I can__. I don__ want to be used that way and I don__ want to use you! Can__ you understand that?

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

the grace is being able to like rock music,symphony music, jazz _anything that contains the original energy ofjoy.

I did not have all the answers. I did not know if I__ deserved God__ grace or wrath, or what would become of me if I ever fled this town.But I did know how to shoot a gun. - Skylla Warden

Obedience makes our heart receptive to what God has already done. It doesn__ move Him; His heart is always aflame toward us. Generally, this revelation is not taught correctly by well-meaning ministers. The incorrect way that obedience is taught causes people to be overly-introspective, obsessing over their inadequacies and failures. It breeds SELF-ESTEEM issues instead of promoting CHRIST-ESTEEM wholeness. It breeds a destructive DEMAND-CONSCIOUSNESS (law) instead of a liberating SUPPLY-CONSCIOUSNESS (grace).

Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and the power of moving on.

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

Hey, if you're going to say what I think you're going to say_wait, are you going to say it?_ he asked, smiling down at me.__es, yes I think so._ I grinned shyly back.__ell, then I think we should say it at the same time, yes?_ he suggested.__ount of three?_ I asked. He nodded.__ne_ I started.__wo_ he said, eyes twinkling.__hree,_ we said together. We both paused, smiling hugely, and then I took a deep breath.__ack, I love you.___ know,_ he said at the same time.Ass__ss!_ I said, smacking him on the arm.__hat was great!_ he laughed.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.