#grace

God really is a Father, as displeased with a cramped, niggardly attitude of lack as with its opposite. ↗

— Brother Andrew

#god-s-grace #attitude

Jesus said when you pray say "Our Father which art in heaven." He did not say "Our Judge which art in heaven". #grace #gospel ↗

— John Paul Warren

#grace #john-paul-warren #pastor-john-paul-warren #art

In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure... ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#artist #creation #creator #faith #grace

You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.” “Tell me.” And so Po described to Katsa what hid in the blackness of the cave; and outside, the world awaited them. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#cave #graceling #katsa #po #beauty

Butterflies are self propelled flowers. ↗

— R.H. Heinlein

#butterflies #flowers #grace #beauty

Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit. ↗

— Thea Harrison

#grace #strength #beauty

He shook his head, just looking at me. "What?" I asked. "Nothing," he said. "Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. ↗

— John Green

#hazel-grace #beauty

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#beauty

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#kindness #beauty

Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What’s good seems lost and gone forever. This is a story about the pathway back to what’s beautiful, when the way back seems impossible. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#grit #pathway #spirit #beauty