Grace Quotes

• Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Grace
  • Harmony

• I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.

  

  William Gibson
  • Trying
  • Scene
  • Losing

• I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of the body of Christ, that if we let the Spirit move through us, we can become the hands of Christ on earth. Hands that heal, bless, unite, and love. I'd like to think God's hands are a bit like Grace's man hands—gentle but big, busy, and tough. God's hands are those of a creator—an artist who molded and shaped the universe out of a void, who hewed matter from nothingness.

  

  Cathleen Falsani
  • World
  • Earth
  • Moving

• ...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

  

  George B. Ward
  • Kind
  • Form
  • Connections

• I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• ..Whoever dewlls on beauty tends to become beautiful; there will be a grace and charm to expressing itself through that person which no one can fail to recognize and appreciate.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Beauty
  • Grace
  • Recognize

• Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine humility will ever feel the need of the largest measures of grace, and will be perfected just in the degree in which that grace is bestowed. The truly humble man will seek to be filled with all the fullness of God, knowing that when so filled there is not the slightest place for pride or for self.

  

  George Bowen
  • Grace
  • Humility
  • Blessing

• One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Nice
  • Enough
  • Economic

• Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace.

  

  Cathleen Falsani
  • Music
  • Grace
  • Might

• Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.

  

  William Carey
  • Grace
  • Salvation
  • Justification

• Embrace more deeply His love, His mercy and grace, and the powerful gifts of His Atonement.

  

  Neil L. Andersen
  • Powerful
  • Mercy
  • Embrace

• The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.

  

  Terrence Malick
  • World
  • Trying
  • Love

• I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit to subdue my corruptions, my pride, my evil passions, my inordinate love to the creature. Afflictions soften my hard heart, bring me to my knees, increase faith, increase love, increase humility, increase self-denial. Afflictions make me poor in spirit, and nothing in my own eyes.

  

  Joseph Williams
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Mean

• Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

  

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Grace
  • Loneliness
  • Fascination

• Every day of our Christian experience should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. We are not only saved by grace, but we also live by grace every day.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Grace
  • Christian Experience

• Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.

  

  William Greider
  • Behavior
  • Caught
  • Labels

• “Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ”

  

  Vincent McNabb
  • God
  • Hope
  • Grace

• Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.

  

  Amy Carmichael
  • God
  • Grace
  • Teaspoons

• The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Forgiveness
  • Sinner
  • Repentance

• Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all.

  

  Melvin Calvin
  • Men
  • Works
  • Perform

• If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Writing
  • Eye
  • Beauty

• They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head. Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered and her tongue moved again: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Running

• A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth
  • Grace
  • Error

• My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Sin
  • Grace
  • Forgiveness

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