"Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit."

-- Sam Storms

#Grace Quotes #Merit Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, 'Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live ..'”

Source : "Auschwitz: the Nazis & The 'Final Solution'". Book by Laurence Rees (p. 89), 2005.
“Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.”
“Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.”
“I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.”
“Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.”
“Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.”
“Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.”
“Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.”

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