#grace

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass. ↗

— Simone Weil

#life #imagination

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#grace #self-righteousness #self-determination

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#catholicism #christ #christianity #eternal-child #god

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love. ↗

— Eric Wilson

#god #grace #judge #love #tolerance

Unconditional love is not affirming another in every decision they make especially when those choices are unhealthy. Unconditional love will risk offending in the name of genuine concern. It will risk relationship for the ultimate well-being of the other. To indiscriminately affirm the unhealthy choices of others is not love at all but perhaps the worst kind of fraud. ↗

— Michael M. Rose

#love #unconditional-love #love

It was more than that, he said, looking down briefly at her. Love fades when you die. I am clearly dead, but my love for her hasn't diminished. It still burns inside me like a flicker in a flame. ↗

— Rachel M. Greenebaum

#char-wales #fairy-tale #love #romance #the-wales-boy

This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, arent you? The girl who was in my house?" I tried to think of what i might gain by denying it and drew a blank "yes" do you have a name?" do you?" he gave a short laugh that was completely without humor but not unpleasent. "I think i might like you. Im Beck. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#grace #humor

Got plans for the rest of the day?" I looked back at him and my heart just stopped. Then it just started again thudding erratically. What the hell does that mean? I feel like I'm having a heart attack. "No plans," I whispered. Test drive your mattress? Let me pretend to be a Skittle and you can taste my rainbow? Fifty Shades me? Please! Oh, holy horror, I'm freaking losing it. ↗

— Christine Zolendz

#grace #shane-maxton #funny

You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now ↗

— John Green

#hazel-grace #the-fault-in-our-stars

Hazel: "God, you're the best," Augustus: "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel. ↗

— John Green

#hazel-grace #the-fault-in-our-stars #the-fault-in-our-stars