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.
Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.
Do not let anything from your past inhibit you in this Present Moment. Start over. Start Fresh. Each day. Each hour, if it serves you. Heck, each minute. Just get going. Just do it. Just say it. With love. All else will take care of itself.
I never dwell on what happened. You can't change it. Move forward. Don't waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It's over. Done. Move forward.
We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.
If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.
If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.
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