I did the co-writing thing all through the '90s and I got one hit out of it - a Keith Urban song called 'But For The Grace Of God' - but then I got burnt out.
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'
When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.
The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to go through it with as much grace and balance as possible, even if there is rebellion and adventure and exploration and resistance.
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
The overwhelming message of the Atonement is the perfect love the Savior has for each and all of us. It is a love which is full of mercy, patience, grace, equity, long-suffering, and, above all, forgiving.
My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic.
At the very crisis, when Satan seemed about to triumph, the Son of God came with the embassage of divine grace.
Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.
Until we put off the garment of law and tradition and put on that of relationship and grace, we'll be living under the bondage of religion
We subscribe into God's unlimited plan when we kneel in humility, live in grace and reach-out in love
I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.
It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.
A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5)
Thank you Father for another day, for another week, for another month and for another year. Your grace is sufficient for me.
When we bring it all back to 'Just Jesus' it is amazing how much grace God can work in and through our lives.
The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
