O.v Grace Quotes

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

Your faithfulness and mercies forever abide, we trust in You Jehovah - Ahavah, The Lord is love.

Where God's grace takes you, grace will increase your capability and your capacity. Grace will empower you.

God's grace will not take you where it cannot keep you.

Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.

People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.

God never encourages self-reliance.

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it.

My dear, treacherous mother, ” he breathed. “What have you done?

[denial] is an attempt to bring order to our lives.

Dreams be the speech of thy soul. Listen.

God created every heart, every person for relationship. Connection has the power to both impact a person's life today as well as their eternal destiny.

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing

I have a plan, and I’m following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don’t need to be afraid of the results.

Reality always wins.

Your time is your life.

Time investment is the NEW Time Management.

Words are seeds. They grow with time. Wisdom is to plant in your mind words that you desire to harvest.

Lea, you know you should never have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

Each day we do the best we can, and then tomorrow we try again!

You like this darkness. You like learning me by feel.” Feeling very bold indeed, she nuzzled at him until she found his mouth with her own. “I like it too.

I live to bring you pleasure.” To Gilly, his words rang like a vow.

Mercia wasn’t a little-in-love sort of man. He was mad, dark passion, sweeping emotion, and complete loss of reason, with his gaunt male beauty, his wealth and power, and his haunted past.

Emperor, king, general, duke, ” he whispered to himself. “These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you’ll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.

‏Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work.

Remember, today's challenges are tomorrow's testimonies.

Next time, we go slowly. I want to explore every delicious inch of you.

Shivering as she gripped the handle, she looked around the cabin one last time. The uneasiness was still there. Why wouldn’t it leave her be?

Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household.

Christmas is a time of sharing, and joy and grace. There's no better time to entertain family and friends than now.

I hold my plush monkey over the bannister and let it drop. Its eyes light up when you squeeze its kidneys as whose eyes, I suppose, would not.

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.

My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

You will not experience dramatic change in your struggle as long as you use accountability to describe your sins instead of declaring your need for help in the midst of temptation.

Unmet desires are the source of most of the conflict and many of the struggles in our lives. When we don’t get what we want, or when and how we want it, life can get pretty ugly.

If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.

Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?

Joy blossoms in our hearts not as we try harder and harder to grow, but as we see more clearly the depth of our sin and understand more fully our helplessness.

When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One Who Is.

A loyal servant does not think of things outside of his control.

I’ve always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event.” “Why would you ever think that?

Seriously, why was it tradition to stand when the bride came in? It blocked her from seeing her groom, who was the only reason she was there in the first place.

I need a friend and you seemed nicest. I think you and I can have more fun than those fake people on the other side.

The sun shines on all and all alike, It's not surprising that we feel good when we immerse ourselves in nature.

One of the effects of the gospel going deeper into our souls is that it frees our fingers to loosen their grasp on our goods.

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says about God tells us more about that civilization than it does about God.