Grace Quotes
A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.
God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.
When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace
Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.
You can't find a YouTube clip to become a craftsman, friend, parent - or disciple of Christ. It's all of grace. And to grow in that grace, you need two things: time and community.
The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.
But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.
Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.
Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.
The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one to the condition where there is no separation between oneself and others
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.
The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.
God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world.
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.
It is by means of these that we attain perfect love, through the grace and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory through all the ages. Amen.
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .
What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!
A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.
When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.
I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him.
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.
What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish
In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome.
Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!
I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.
