Nothing else in the world matters but the kindness of grace, God's gift to suffering mortals

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".

'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

We are to work to improve ourselves while at the same time remaining totally dependent on God.

soul survivor," someone who's willing to open up and examine the pain in order to lance the wound and perforate the power of the past.

God says, "I have the strength that is necessary to escalate and motivate and move you up and out of your circumstances.

No matter how strong we are, there is always something that can cause the heart to flutter and the pulse to weaken.

God gives you the strength to stand in the midst of turmoil and walk through it victoriously!

He alone whom we must trust to see the very worst in us, yet still think the very best of us.

A pearl of great price is our pain wrapped in God's perfection.