Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.
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Paul Murray
When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
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Patricia Briggs
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which...
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Simone Weil
Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.
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Edmund Spenser
He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.
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More Quotes By Tullian Tchividjian
The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.
Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.
The apostle Paul claimed the Law is written on the 'fleshy tables' of the human heart (2 Cor. 3:3 KJV). What he meant are these 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts' are both instinctual and inescapable, part of our DNA. They are a psychological reality. We may justify...
The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
