To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.
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Related When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour... BRENNAN MANNING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In my real life I live in the countryside, I walk a lot, I shoot clay pigeons, I don't get invol... NICK LOVE I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. MAYA ANGELOU How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole C.G. JUNG What if I were to become a deer, and live in the forest, picking and eating fruits and roots - by Gu... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB I am attracted to the dark side of life! FAMKE JANSSEN The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. Fro... C. J. MAHANEY But by the grace of God I am what I am." ~1 Corinthians 15:10 "Paul was alludi... R. ALAN WOODS I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not... ANTHONY HOPKINS In the New Testament, grace means God's love in action toward people who merited the opposite of lov... J.I. PACKER I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked ... LUIS GUZMAN Athena came to stand by her side. She reached out and ran a light touch over the read wrap. 'Nice dr... SHERRILYN KENYON My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' pa... GARY BUSEY I am thankful to the Lord for my redemption. I was once lost, now I am saved by grace. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming... SHARON E. RAINEY I am a NEW YORKER which means i work full time and live my life part time KENNETH WATERS JR Everything has a shadow-side. In my opinion, that is what makes life interesting. ANNE FORTIER My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids'... GARY BUSEY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to re... LEWIS B. SMEDES I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting ha... ALLAN SHERMAN I am humbled by the grace of God. I am humbled by the beauty of this universe. Humbled by ... KAMAND KOJOURI Oh my goodness, I never thought I'd ever be here in my whole life. I'm just trying to matter and liv... REESE WITHERSPOON We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time. JACOBY SHADDIX Krupa (divine grace) means ‘every time sincere’. Without becoming suitable for naimitik krupa (a... DADA BHAGWAN If you want to know who I am, learn how I live my life. LORRIN L. LEE For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of gua... RICHELLE MEAD Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole li... MARIAH CAREY It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA GRACE means God Redeems And Christ Empowers! LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I live in my own place - have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace -... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT You can actually accomplish all that you desire in life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but b... ALEXANDER THE GREAT The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken. BREE DESPAIN I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans a... JAMES LONGSTREET The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of vari... STUART PEARCE I rather be alone than have to dime my inner light, dignity and grace in order to suit manipulating ... ROSE MESQUITA Get wealth and power, if possible by grace,
If not, by any means, get wealth and place. ROBERT POLLOK There are three sides to any story, my side, his side and the truth. UNKNOWN Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any d... LISA UNGER To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster ... PETER HENRY ABRAHAMS I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wond... OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all ... TRAIAN BASESCU Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our ... JOHN BRADSHAW Light side? Dark side? Oh no, it's all grey to me. JOLEE BINDO I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-li... ART ALEXAKIS Teach me to live that I may dread
The grace as little as my bed. BISHOP THOMAS KEN He, who dares seek God's presence, will receive His blessings and favours. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place. ALEXANDER POPE The saving grace of God makes me perfect. The saving of myself makes me in-perfect. I choose to be p... SUSIE L HILL Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE! TANYA MASSE I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish. CRISS ANGEL They stayed by my side the whole time-my teammates, family and all the fans. WILLIAM GREEN We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we... MISHI MCCOY The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great an... T. B. JOSHUA Let me live in my house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by;
They are good, t... SAM WALTER FOSS Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand... KYAN DOUGLAS And if I show you my dark side
will you still hold me tonight
and if I open my heart to you
and show... PINK FLOYD I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Bla... JUNE JORDAN God called us to live a holy life by his grace. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically... LISA UNGER Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the trag... WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life des... AMIT RAY I am not what I ought to be; I am not what I would like to be; I am not what I hope to be. But I am ... JOHN NEWTON I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. HUNTER S. THOMPSON You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one... ELEANOR CATTON Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be gracefu... C. JOYBELL C. Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you... JOSHUA BELL God's unearthly grace and immeasurable love for us is the heartbeat of this whole record. This is a ... BETHANY DILLON What we don’t bring into light, and don’t acknowledge to ourselves, grows in the dark. DRAGOS BRATASANU lot of Christians seem to think that the grace of God and the vigorous pursuit of holiness are antit... JERRY BRIDGES If I want to know my light side, my best self, all I have to do is look in the outer world and look ... JANET BRAY ATTWOOD antithetical — that is, in direct and unequivocal opposition to one another. To some, the pursuit ... JERRY BRIDGES I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my ... CHARLES SPURGEON Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom t... EDWARD HERRMANN We sat out there in silence for a minute and then Gus said, " I wish we had that swing set sometimes... JOHN GREEN And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace i... BIBLE The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but t... TANITH LEE The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, ... TANITH LEE The dictate of the light says: ''Know yourself and what you are.'' The dark replies, ''By all means,... TANITH LEE I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part... ANNE LAMOTT Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream MAGGIE STIEFVATER I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and natur... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF A pragmatic person sees the dark and the light side of life, while an idealist sees a life filled wi... ERALDO BANOVAC We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA The quickest way to get on my bad side is to call me by that name. I am Single and reside in Overlan... DANTE HALL I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing... WHITTAKER CHAMBERS And now, I am dying beyond my means. OSCAR WILDE, SIPPING CHAMPAGNE ON HIS DEATHBED I am an undisputed gangster. To me, that means playing by my own rules. KATHERINE RYAN Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe togethe... CARL ZWANZIG Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe togethe... CARL ZWANZIG I hope people will see the spirituality and the meaning of life, death, light and shadow. It's my ar... CHIQUI EZCURRA MULLER Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country. ADAM PEATY You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. CARL ZWANZIG
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BRENNAN BILBERRY People understand the disgusting length this organization will sink to, to attack a woman who has de... BRENNAN BILBERRY People all across the country realize this is going to be a hard-fought and very close election. Gov... BRENNAN BILBERRY We certainly want to make sure that we have a complete profile, so we know who our opponents are. Bu... BRENNAN BILBERRY It's more confirmation that Francine is running against a group of career politicians and millionair... BRENNAN BILBERRY I'd say we're right around 40 players. We got a good response, and hope to have a big announcement i... BOB BRENNAN A neighbor called them and told them their house was on fire. BOB BRENNAN One of the things I'll ask for in the future is that we have a deeper (contact) tree on the next of ... BOB BRENNAN No farmers can buy here anymore. And I don't know how young people can buy a piece of land and build... BOB BRENNAN It's horrible -- the worst fears ... something we can't control. BOB BRENNAN [But all the elaborate measures could not prevent the explosion.] It's horrible -- the worst fears .... BOB BRENNAN You have to use your mind instead of gears. BOB BRENNAN This program will allow all our customers, including our low-income customers, to enjoy the benefits... BOB BRENNAN A few of those wagons, if I had a place to move them to I would, but if I start saving stuff I'd hav... BOB BRENNAN A blind man sees not with his eyes, but with his heart. A deaf man hears with his soul and mind, not... BRENNAN MASTOUS Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered. WILLIAM BRENNAN At one point in the 'Onyx Court' series, I think during 'In Ashes Lie', I suggested ... MARIE BRENNAN I think if you write for long enough, you eventually have a problem with everything, because you sta... MARIE BRENNAN You get a great perspective on the way the U.S. is perceived in other countries. I think everyone sh... CHRIS BRENNAN Foster also reflects the frustrations which so many colleges feel about the structures imposed on th... JOHN BRENNAN Anyone who might assert that our numbers were intentionally skewed is mistaken. JOHN BRENNAN We don't know the cause of death, but there was a knocked-over propane lantern in the tent, which wa... DAVE BRENNAN We needed reassurance. I needed reassurance. JACK BRENNAN We were so close in some of those games that we easily could have been 17-3 at the end of the season... JOE BRENNAN It was very similar to the game we had last week. We got a big lead and they came back hard. They're... JOE BRENNAN They're a good team, a scrappy team. They always find a way to get back in games. Their hustle and s... JOE BRENNAN We talked about it before the game. If we could come out and shoot the ball well, that's a real key ... JOE BRENNAN Someone might want to buy a special bottle to commemorate an occasion. Or someone might want to roll... TED BRENNAN We're looking forward to another good season. BARBARA BRENNAN We've talked about it, BARBARA BRENNAN We had six, lost three, then gained three, and have six again. We have a nice group. Annmarie, Kathy... BARBARA BRENNAN He's always been a good shooter. Nobody knew about him and I'm sure these guys didn't. I knew they w... RICH BRENNAN I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization." There is a proverb... MARIE BRENNAN We were excited to go to Nashville because it came down to Nashville or San Francisco and either pla... BRENNAN SCHMIDT That facility is in dire need of some cosmetic and functional upgrades. KEN BRENNAN My Aunt Ella and my mom have informed me that we are going to rebuild. And because they are the matr... BRAD BRENNAN We're trying to get the investigation wrapped up. Obviously, it's a horrible and tragic situation fo... DAVE BRENNAN confirms our belief that the rangers' actions were justified. DAVE BRENNAN It reminds me of that dog that's always gnawing at you. They chase the postman. SEAN BRENNAN It's a reality. This team runs the ball very well, and they have the right personnel for the system ... BRENNAN SCHMIDT I haven't yet heard of a hookah lounge opening and going out of business. BRENNAN APPEL It's at its largest demand ever in this country. I don't think it's going away any time soon. There'... BRENNAN APPEL