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• Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.

  Joshua Harris

  Beautiful, Godly, Men

  Joshua Harris (2009). “Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship”, p.118, Multnomah

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• And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Vain, Still In Love, Same Love

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.143

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• 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.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Giving Up

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.74, Penguin

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• The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply to believe that someone else has done all the achieving that is needed and to live in relationship with that person, whether we achieve or not. If that doesn't seem like much to you, you're right: it isn't. And, as a matter of fact, the life of grace is even less than that. It's not even our life at all, but the life of that Someone Else rising like a tide in the ruins of our death.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Believe, Goal, Effort

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• A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Witty, Children, Clever

  Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman (2009). “Don Quixote”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.

  Terrence Malick

  Love Is, Two, Shining

  "Fictional character: Mrs. O'Brien". "The Tree of Life", May 2011.

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• Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

  John Green

  Children, Swings, Augustus

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.75, Penguin

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• I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

  Richard Baxter

  Self, Denial, Saving

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.3

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• The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Father, Thinking

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.487

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• You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Years, Age, Knows

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.247, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Broken, Suffering

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.619, Simon and Schuster

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• Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Character, Apology, Groups

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• [Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!” he said, wide-eyed. “I wanna get an A on the test.

  Rick Riordan

  Air, Jason, Goes On

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• Frank Zhang! I, Jason Grace, praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, give you my final order: I resign my post and give you emergency field promotion to praetor, with the full powers of that rank. Take command of this legion!

  Rick Riordan

  Order, Giving, Jason

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• Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair.

  Rick Riordan

  Destiny, Fire, Choices

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• God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christmas, Jesus, Light

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• Time be thine,
  And thy best graces spend it at thy will.

  William Shakespeare

  Time

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.195

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• The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, And Love, Way

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.45, InterVarsity Press

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• Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.

  David Jeremiah

  Time, Saving, God Love

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• Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Humility, Appreciate

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.9, Moody Publishers

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• It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Time, Memories

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.152, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I never lost my faith...But like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time that I had outgrown the church. Now it is a bone of contention in my soul that I did not share my faith with my kids, as my parents did with me. It was a source of grace when I needed it. I have been greatly nurtured and inspired by my faith.

  Martin Sheen

  Inspirational, Kids, Parent

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• Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

  J. C. Ryle

  Inspirational, Mean, Soul

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• Suffering is seldom an item on our list of requests to the Lord. But when it crosses our path and we are able by his grace to keep on walking, our lives become messages of hope to the world and to the church.

  Sheila Walsh

  Hope, Encouragement, Suffering

  Sheila Walsh (1999). “Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times”, p.1957, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable, yet not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying, yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.

  Frederick William Faber

  Kindness, Men, Self

  "Spiritual conferences".

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