Grace changes us and change is painful".
Interpretation
Grace transforms our lives, but transformation often comes with discomfort and pain.
This quote suggests that experiencing grace—a profound, unearned favor or mercy—can lead to significant changes in our character and circumstances. However, such changes are not without their challenges; they often require us to confront discomfort and pain, reflecting the complexity of personal growth and the necessity of overcoming struggles to embrace a new self.
In practice
In a motivational talk about personal development.
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.
Citizens, not less generous than myself, let your most precious moments be employed in causing the past to be forgotten; let all my fellow-citizens swear never to recall the past; let them receive their misled brethren with open arms, and let them, in future, be on their guard against the traps of bad men.
Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees.
Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
By changing nothing, nothing changes.
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