Quotes about grace
grace oracles reason
Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God. Thomas Jefferson
grace liberty superstitions
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
grace and-love add
Grace is more than mercy and love. It super-adds to them. It denotes, not simply love, but the love of a sovereign, transcendent Superior. One that may do what He will. That may wholly choose whether He will love or no. Now God, who is an infinite Sovereign, who might have chosen whether ever He would love us or no; for Him to love us, this is Grace. Thomas Goodwin
grace sin mark
To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin. Thomas Brooks
grace given trade
Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.
grace crowns mercy
God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.
grace signals difficulty
A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly. Jean Vanier
grace gentleman may
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent; Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.] Jean de La Fontaine
grace deliberate
I couldn’t have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with! Jim Elliot
grace action common
This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious. Jeremy Taylor
grace matter does-it-matter
What does it matter, all is grace. Georges Bernanos
grace addresses rich
And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you? George Whitefield
grace cost facts
In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace. George Saunders
grace generations virtue
My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. F. Scott Fitzgerald
grace way world
A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace. Eugene H. Peterson
grace definitions pressure
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway
grace lines boundaries
Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines. Harriet Beecher Stowe
grace listening kind
There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking. Frederick William Faber
grace divine divine-grace
Divine grace was never slow. George Herbert
grace-and-mercy purpose lord
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence. Christopher Columbus
grace growing pages
[Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you." [Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice." Page 58 George R. R. Martin
grace tragedy world
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens. Frederick Buechner
grace age modern
The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. Ezra Pound
grace desolation robes
Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation. Francis Beaumont
grace wish joyful
We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God. Francis Chan
grace favors salvation
Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.
grace letters recommendations
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. Francis Bacon
grace stills deprived
still loved but deprived of grace Flann O'Brien
grace violin beloved
He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless. Cassandra Clare
grace
It's important that residents know about the grace period.
graceful imagination prize stretch
It wasn't graceful by any stretch of the imagination. It was like a heavyweight prize fight.
graceful restore symbol
It was not going to be a graceful symbol of the past. It was going to try to restore the river. Pete Seeger
grace kids strong
It's been a really strong bond. We have a lot of kids who go to Grace Church.