About Grace Quotes
If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
I testify of the renewing power of God's love and the miracle of His grace. His concern is for the faith at which you finally arrive, not the hour of the day in which you got there.
Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.
There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.
Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.
Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.
I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.
When you come to a dark valley, a difficult season or a sickness, don't worry about it, God will give you the grace and strength you need.
Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.
For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.
While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.
The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.
Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.
I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.
This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.
To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.
One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
I cannot speak In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad; But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.
Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve. ...... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift
Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.
The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.
I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.
This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.
Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.
