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\u201cThe grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn\u2019t have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don\u2019t be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It\u2019s for you I created the universe. I love you. There\u2019s only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you\u2019ll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.\u201d \u2013 Frederick Buechner
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\u201cAll things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one\u2019s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.\u201d \u2013 Cormac McCarthy
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\u201cI wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace\u2019s arrival. But no, it\u2019s clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.\u201d \u2013 Anne Lamott
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\u201cLove is holy because it is like grace\u2013the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.\u201d \u2013 Marilynne Robinson
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\u201cThis grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.\u201d \u2013 Martin Luther
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\u201cAnd Grace calls out, \u2018You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.\u2019 Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.\u201d \u2013 Brennan Manning
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\u201cOur worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God\u2019s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God\u2019s grace.\u201d \u2013 Jerry Bridges
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\u201c\u2026 grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: \u201cye were bought at a price,\u201d and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon his Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.\u201d \u2013 Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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\"shutterstock_376481674\"<\/a>\u201cA sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.\u201d \u2013 Thomas A Kempis
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\u201cBeauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.\u201d \u2013 Annie Dillard<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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