Grace Quotes

We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most...

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable ...

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of...

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusio...

The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool...

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work...

Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he ...

As the hound follows the hare, never ceasing in its running, ever drawing nearer in the chase, with ...

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. An...

There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of...

For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it ...

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING thing...

Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense!That all this good of evil shall produce,And evil turn to goo...

And now without redemption all mankindMust have been lost, adjudged to death and hellBy doom severe,...

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge...

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

What then do we learn from Paul's unbroken pattern of beginning and ending his letters this way ("Gr...

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grac...

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge...

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

What then do we learn from Paul's unbroken pattern of beginning and ending his letters this way ("Gr...

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grac...

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge...

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

What then do we learn from Paul's unbroken pattern of beginning and ending his letters this way ("Gr...

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grac...

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge...

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined w...

What then do we learn from Paul's unbroken pattern of beginning and ending his letters this way ("Gr...

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grac...

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will b...

Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gra...

How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by s...

The example of Jesus Christ is the only perfect example that ever existed in human nature. It is the...

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of...

The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the concei...

But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infin...

The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man...

We must be willing to get rid ofthe life we’ve planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for us...

He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. ...

And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its ...

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make he...

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bo...

The righteousness of God in His election means, then, that as a righteous Judge God perceives and es...

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God...

there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] ...

consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective,”...

…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.

Forever?"Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a l...

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in ou...

In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things w...

It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to ...

Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow.When he finally f...

I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of ...

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

We were miles away from our real lives.

You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs ab...

There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very go...

...she made her home in between the pages of books.

This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people d...

I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye

This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, ar...

My wolf was a cute guy and he was holding my hand. I could die happy.

Sam reached his hand toward mine, and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little sm...

I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over t...

I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the s...

Sam came around the back of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. "Oh my God, what is that?"I use...

I gave her a look. “Rachel.”“Grace, you have to admit this is pretty weird. Say it. You disappearing...

I mean, we don’t have to worry about it until winter, anyway,” she said. “I was just wondering if yo...

One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing ...

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved thro...

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole li...

When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question...

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I t...

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I...

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do ...

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You m...

Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. H...

There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterne...

There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to th...

I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, ...

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the r...

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.