Grace Quotes

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.

Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness).

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.

People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.

The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

Grace saved my life; it can revolutionize yours.

Grace and remembrance be to you both.

Being filled and led by the Spirit may take you places you never planned; but the will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you.

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

By your grace, I will not despair. I believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because she is full of grace.

While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women subjective, intuitive and emotional.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.

For the mighty, even to give away is grace.

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.