I do hope that when the day comes, whether in 1, 10, or 100 years, I don’t want you to think of me and feel sad.
I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous ...
This 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 ...
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful graces of God.
If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?'... I don't understand why we don't find it ...
It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.
He that performs his own errand, saves his messanger's hire.
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!
For a Catholic understanding of the faith there is no reason why the basic concern of Evangelical Christianity as it comes to expression in the three “only's” should have no place in the Catholic Church. Accepted as basic and ultimate formulas of...
When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation? If you confront insult or antagonism, your f...
The multitude of men and women choose the less adventurous way of the comparatively unconscious civic and tribal routines. But these seekers, too, are saved—by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yieldi...
All I want is your assurance that you will treat my daughter with kindness.” Derek had never talked to another man so earnestly; no maneuvering or shrewdness, nothing but humble honesty. “I want to be more than kind to Sara. I want to keep her sa...
I'm done waiting for someone, even my father, to save me. Today I'm the one who will be doing the saving.
You're not saving lives, Dad. You can't save lives when no one's living anymore. (Maddie)
A brick could be used to save humanity from mortality. Or at least save us from mortar.
Proving himself to himself was no small matter.
Perhaps it is music that will save the world.
Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
Love will cost you dearly. And it will break your heart. But in the end, it will save the world.
