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The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children
You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less
The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.
To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.
I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain situations.
I grew up with Grace Coddington coming over to our house, like, all the time, but, like, she was just, like, the woman with the red hair.
Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
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.
To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
I am a complete mother's boy. I try to do everything with honour, respect and grace because the last thing I would want to do is hurt her.
You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.
When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.
Mercy is not giving someone what they deserve. Grace is giving someone what they don't deserve. Extend God's wisdom in your relationships.
Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.
The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.
There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements.
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
Jesus was treated on the cross as if He lived our life, so by grace we could be treated as if we lived His life. Hallelujah what a Savior!
Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.
I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.
Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
There's definitely no subtlety in what I do. When you want to get your face melted, you come to a Grace Potter and the Nocturnals concert.
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.
The Spending Control Act. It would recreate President Reagan's grace commission to have a bipartisan commission on how we reduce spending.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!
The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.
There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.
There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed 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.
Our weaknesses are not as negative as we may believe. They make us rely upon God's grace and power for greater Christlikeness and ministry.
Get honest with God, and your focus will shift from just seeing your problems - no matter how overwhelming they seem - to the grace of God.
Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.
The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives.
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.
Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.
Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.
I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.
In our pugilistic take-no-prisoners era, preaching grace toward those on the other side of the political fence is decidedly countercultural.
Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.
We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!
We need grace in our lives, and I'm not talking about heavenly grace. I'm talking about human grace. We should try and be warm and friendly.
"The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace.