Grace Quotes
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It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
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Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
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Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
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Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.
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There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."
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It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.
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Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.
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If we spend our days trying to avoid the landmines of stepping out of God's will, then will be afraid to take any risks for his kingdom. But when you know there is a net of grace, when you know that God will catch you and set you back on his path when you fall, then you'll feel the freedom to pursue the adventure that kingdom living is all about.
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In the state of grace, there is no such thing as opportunity lost that cannot be found.
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Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.
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I couldn’t have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!
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... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.
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...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.
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I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.
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I was the smile on your face every morning with the rising sun. I was your saving grace and the only one that you wanted in this whole world. But now I’m just another girl…
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Here. Have a Coke. That’s good for a sore throat, right?” “Good for everything,” Shane croaked, and took the extended cold can with good grace. “Thanks.” “You owe me a dollar,” Eve said. “I’ll add it to the five thousand you already owe me, though.” He blew her a kiss, and she stuck her tongue out at him, and that was the end of the subject, thankfully.
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Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
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I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
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Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
