Truthful Grace

A Blog focused on living in community with God and humankind, following the One described in John 1:14--"And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth." Entries are mostly florilegia except for comments signed by Truthful Grace.

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Mother Teresa's Tips to Help You Become More Humble

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"It’s the understanding that everything comes from God and that God is everything." Mother Teresa called humility the mother of...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”

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“No fim, tudo dá certo. Se não deu, ainda não chegou ao fim.” The translation follows: “In the end, everything will be ok. If it’s not ok,...

what makes you come alive

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"Do not ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is...
Monday, March 23, 2020

a perspective check from Anne Frank

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from Facebook: Kimberly Graham,  3/23/2020 Perspective Check... Anne Frank and fam were in hiding for 761 days...no netflix, no internet,...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

Julian of Norwich - the Maker, the Keeper, and the Lover

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I saw that He is to us everything that is good and comfortable for us: He is our clothing that for love wrappeth us, claspeth us, and all en...

Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

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He showed me a little thing the size of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, and to my understanding it was as round as a ball. I looke...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Traditional Prayer for the Answering of Prayer

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Almighty God, you have promised to hear the petitions of those who ask in your Son’s Name: We beseech you mercifully to incline your ear t...
Monday, March 09, 2020

the joy and terror of being a parent

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"Being a parent is the greatest combination of joy and terror one can experience." ~ David Letterman 10-17-2013 show, YouTube
Saturday, March 07, 2020

Be in charge of how and when you heal

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"We could spend our whole lives waiting for someone to apologize or take responsibility for how they hurt us before we decide to let go...
Sunday, March 01, 2020

Samuel Rutherford Quotes

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Samuel Rutherford Quotes Scottish Theologian, 1600-1661 https://www.azquotes.com/author/12820-Samuel_Rutherford Humility is a strange fl...

the cellar of affliction

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"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines." ~ Samuel Rutherford, Scottish Theologian, 160...

telling the truth is a revolutionary act

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“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ~ Author unknown (quote has been mistakenly attributed to Georg...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

God Uses Everything

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"When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety." ~ A.W. T...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

a document containing enough dynamite . . .

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“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring pe...

If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ . . .

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When the missionary E. Stanley Jones met with Gandhi he asked him, “Mr. Gandhi, though you quote the words of Christ often, why is that you ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Vocation — Frederick Buechner

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Vocation — Frederick Buechner www.frederickbuechner.com/quote-of-the-day/2018/12/12/vocation VOCATION COMES FROM the Latin vocare , ...
Sunday, December 01, 2019

Unconditional love?

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"Let me be clear, my love is unconditional, but your presence in my life is not." "I'll have no problem unconditionally ...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

The Christmas 5-Gift Rule

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With the 5-gift rule, each person gets just five gifts for Christmas: Something you want, Something you need, Something to wear, Something t...
Monday, November 25, 2019

quotes from Jan Karon - Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The New Mitford Novel

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quotes from Jan Karon - Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The New Mitford Novel Kindle edition, as of 11/25/2019 It’s what you read when ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

"Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world" Mother Teresa

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“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases ...
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