“Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - You are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here in this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.” ThinkingGivingKindPersonsMadeGodHandsPurposeChoicesReligiousChanceGraceGenerationsSpecialCreatorCompareAllowingThis GenerationOne Of A KindGod Has A Plan Author:Roy Lessin
“If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWayBeliefChristReligiousSinMoralGraceNiceMoralityConceptsImportanceFollowingBrilliantRighteousnessFraudPeculiarBeing NiceRailTithingHarming OthersFollowing RulesMoral Beliefs Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.” CultureReligiousGraceGainsAddSakeAesthetic Author:John Campbell Shairp
“The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.” ReligiousPerfectPowerfulVirtueGracePrayingModelsBlessedSaintVirginsHelpersVirgin Mary Book:True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort Source: True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort
“This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.” IfsMeanPersonsSoulFatherJesusWinningBitsReligiousActingGraceSpecialGardenShopsVocationAttorneyShepherdsCarpenterEvangelistsHomemakerGethsemaneKingshipSoul Winning Author:R. C. Sproul
“We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.” WorldLongSufferingFaithReligiousGraceThis WorldMercyAccustomedPuzzledBewilderedLong SufferingAmazing Grace Author:R. C. Sproul
“A certain monk told me that when he was very sick, his mother said to his father, "How our little boy is suffering. I would gladly give myself to be cut up into pieces if that would ease his suffering." Such is the love of God for people. He pitied people so much that he wanted to suffer for them, like their own mother, and even more. But no one can understand this great love without the grace of the Holy Spirit.” PeopleIfsInspirationalGivingLittlesSaidWantedChristianSpiritMotherCertainSufferingFatherReligiousBoysGracePiecesCuttingHolySickGod LoveEaseHoly SpiritOrthodoxMonkGreat LoveLittle Boys Author:Silouan the Athonite
“The Lord loves all people, but He loves those who seek Him even more. To his chosen ones the Lord gives such great grace that for love they forsake the whole earth, the whole world, and their souls burn with desire that all people might be saved and see the glory of the Lord.” PeopleWorldInspirationalGivingSoulWholeMightEarthChristianDesireReligiousLordGraceGlorySavedWhole WorldChosenOrthodoxForsakeChosen One Author:Silouan the Athonite
“Don't be troubled if you don't feel the love of God in yourself, but thing about the Lord, that He is merciful, and guard yourself from sins, and the grace of God will teach you.” IfsInspirationalFeelsChristianReligiousSinLordTeachGraceGods WillGod LoveOrthodoxGrace Of GodMerciful Author:Silouan the Athonite
“The Lord does not show Himself to a proud soul. The proud soul, no matter how many books it reads, will never know God, since by its pride it does not give place for the grace of the Holy Spirit, while God is known only by the humble soul.” KnowsInspirationalGivingDoeBookSoulMatterShowsChristianSpiritReligiousKnownLordGracePrideProudHolyHumbleHoly SpiritOrthodoxKnowing God Author:Silouan the Athonite
“Each of us can discuss God inasmuch as he has known the grace of the Holy Spirit; for how can we think of or discuss what we haven't seen, or haven't head of, or don't know? The saints say that they have seen God, but there are people who say that there is no God. Clearly, they say this because they haven't known God, but this does not at all mean that He is not. The saints speak of that which they have truly seen and know.” PeopleThinkingKnowsInspirationalMeanDoeChristianSpiritSpeakReligiousKnownGraceHavensHolySaintHoly SpiritOrthodoxThere Is No God Author:Silouan the Athonite