Grace Quotes
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If at anytime this life of ours grows feeble, or low, or lonely, I know no other remedy than to return to its Eternal Source, to God Himself; and through Him all the means of grace become again living and true; and through Him all His creatures become again near and dear and accessible.
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Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.
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They should be beautiful, but I know what they are. They are not beautiful, because beauty is about grace and love and hope. They are all about need.
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In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.
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Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.
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He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.
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The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
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In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
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Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me.
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Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.
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Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul said in Romans 11:6, "And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace." Our relationship with God is based on either works or grace. There is never a works-plus-grace relationship with Him.
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Behold Jesus Christ crucified, Who is the only foundation of our hope; He is our Mediator and Advocate; the victim and sacrifice for our sins. He is goodness and patience itself; His mercy is moved by the tears of sinners, and He never refuses pardon and grace to those who ask it with a truly contrite and humbled heart.
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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When a man is in God's grace and free from mortal sin, then everything that he does, so long as there is no sin in it, gives God glory and what does not give him glory has some, however little, sin in it. It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.
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He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
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All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.
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My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his wordy sentences: "When someone expends the least amount of motion on a given action, that's grace." The short story, by definition, embodies this notion of grace, because it requires such forceful compression to achieve its effects.
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Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and grace.
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Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.
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You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little babe, that is all; and if you make any progress from that point on, it must be by work, by sacrifice, by the practice of Christian virtues, by benevolence, by self-denial, by resisting the adversary, by making valiant war for God and against sin; and on no other basis, am I authorized in giving you a hope that you may come to manhood in Christ Jesus.
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Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.
