I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.
Find your bones. Believe in what you are.
Surrendering is not giving up--it is gaining strength.
Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.
Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.
Control is an illusion that you must give up.
Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.
To greet the present is to part with the past and future.
To act upon the outer world and change it, you must be first be fine to act upon yourself.
If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.
“It is not the places that grace men, but men the places”
“Grace can and does have a history.”
“a kind of lightness and grace that was in the music-making.”
A sure success is the grace to mediate on the scriptures.
The sweet pleasure of prayer, the grace of the soul.
May you be filled with fullness of grace.
I live by grace, in the light of God.
What needs to be done will be done by grace.
May you grace for good deeds.
It takes grace to know the word of truth.