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"I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark."
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"Etta saw the way Sophia took a deep breathe, set her shoulders back, and moved with practiced grace on her way out - and she understood something about the other girl, truly understood for the first time. Sophia wanted it, when she was only ever sent out."
"If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl."
"Grounded by healthy self-esteem and personal self-worth, this admirable character quality can inspire awe and reverence."
"There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly."
"Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, lives in the now without resisting pain, and accepts the moral sublimity of living in a state of grace."
"We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'."
"How much is your sincerity, that much will be 'Our' divine grace (krupa). This is the measure of grace."
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"Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer-the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That's all you need."
"One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break."
"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."
"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
"Most of us don't notice how great we look until years, even decades later. Not long ago, I was looking at photos of myself at various ages and weights-way before the neckular deterioration began, way before the fanny pack of menopause-and I could see how gorgeous I must have looked to everyone else."
"The Amen is only as good as the attitude. If you are trying to finish up quickly so you can check your cell phone messages, you are missing the chance to spend quiet moments with the giver of life and the eternal, which means you may reap continued feelings of life racing along without you. So as Samuel Beckett admonished us to fail again, and fail better, we try to pray again, and pray better, for slightly longer and with slightly more honesty, breathing more, deeper, and with more attention."
"We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand."
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