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“Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.”

“Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.”

Men Light Law Purpose Christ Loss Powerful Accepting Taken Grace Serious Holy Weapons Gains Guilt Conviction Conversion Perceive Sinner Most Powerful Deprived Likelihood Powerful Weapons

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a narrative theodicy--defense of God's goodness in spite of the undeniable reality of evil. . . . This is an honest and hard-hitting book about God's grace in and through tremendous loss of health and strength. Readers will find hope and help here if they are open to its message about the God-given 'strength to suffer well.'”

“How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?”

Dream Joy Loss Grace Wake Up Crushed Numb

Book:One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.”

Thinking Persons Voice Loss Grace Ease Discovering Revising

Author:Susan Stewart

“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.”

“The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.”

Should Helping Christian Growth Loss Grace Accounts Ill Affliction Thankfulness Usage

Book:A plain account of Christian perfection ... Eighteenth edition

Source: A plain account of Christian perfection ... Eighteenth edition

“Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer's growth in grace.”

Firsts Sound Growth Loss Grace Essentials Despair Believer Conversion Sinner Prerequisites

Book:Sovereignty of God

Source: Sovereignty of God

“If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.”

Ifs Made Order Loss Accepting Grace Wonderful Difficulty Gentle Recognizing Unwelcome

Author:Kathleen Norris

“Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.”

“God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator.”

Mean Loss Grace Sacrifice Bears Understood Forgiving Debt Giver God's Grace Perpetrators Wronged Without Sacrifice Grace And Forgiveness

Author:Timothy Keller

“I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part of me that could remember Grace's name.”

Ifs Made Moments Pain Remember Names Lost Felt Loss Grace Remembered Agony Shifting Lost Myself

Book:Shiver

Source: Shiver