Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.
Criss JamiTags: humility grace church authenticity mercy sin forgiveness hypocrisy sickness apologetics critics righteousness
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
AberjhaniTags: poetry beauty humanity grace hope rumi famous-poets rumi-s-birthday spiritual-ecstasy
We do good works, not in order to be saved, but because we are saved; not in order to earn God's favor, but with the favor of His help.
Alex Brett HarrisTags: christianity grace
Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you've done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently. It's spelled 'D-O-N-E', which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God's gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.
Bill HybelsTags: christianity grace forgiveness christian religions
Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow.
When he finally fell silent, the night felt dead.
Sitting was intolerable. I stood up, paced, clenched and unclenched my hands into fists. Finally I took the guitar that Sam had played and I screamed and smashed it into pieces on Dad's desk.
Tags: grace sad lonely wolf cold sam shiver
I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over the shelves, seeking possibilities for escape.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: grace sam book-store awed
Forever?"
Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie.
"Longer.
Tags: love grace sad always sam
The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that I have submitted to it all; worse, I have loved with all my heart.
Jean LorrainTags: beauty grace decadence consumption cemetery hospital 20th-century decadent decadents emaciated twentieth-century
In a tired time, with the light outside drifting away for another day and the lights inside flickering as they come to life, I cup my hands together and prepare to give thanks ... to the life of a day given to me. A day shared with past and present, living and dying, of body and not, and a realization that in everything that is, there is something that was.
R.J. HellerTags: life past future present poetry nature time grace prose holding
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
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