Quotes about grace
grace thrones world
One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future. Shane Claiborne
grace world body
For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world. Michael Pollan
grace way steps
Grace will hold you every step of the way. John Friend
grace irrational offers
Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped. John Ortberg
grace overcoming sin
While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it. John Calvin
grace fallen humans
To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
grace liberty doe
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
grace ifs
If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, but will be crowned.
grace salvation righteousness
For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves. Johann Arndt
grace may do-you-know
Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me. Joan of Arc
grace praying states
If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.
grace too-late mystery
That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late. Francois Mauriac
grace virtue neglect
Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. George Crabbe
grace small-gifts great-gifts
Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace. John Bunyan
grace no-fear hell
Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
grace saws yang
When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for. Lou Reed
grace suspicious
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. Madeleine L'Engle
grace wish my-one-and-only
I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will grant you that you did spend my one and only Wish, but you did not spend it on him. You spent it on us. John Green
grace intellectual phrases
Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from Peter Van Houten featuring phrases like ‘our triumphantly digitized contemporaneity’?” “You could not,” I allowed. “Can I, can I have the email address?” “Of course,” Augustus said, like it was not the best gift ever.
grace phrases use
For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good. John Florio
grace affliction holiness
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. John Flavel
grace promise payment
Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.
grace secret edges
The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges. Lewis B. Smedes
grace doe
Grace can and does have a history. Karl Rahner
grace-and-mercy heaven attributes
Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel. John Dryden
grace given ignite
I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground. John Knox
grace foolish
We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace? Judith McNaught
grace sin holy
Grace is not the freedom to sin; it is the power to live a holy life. Joyce Meyer
grace deserve
Grace is God doing for us what we could never do and what we will never deserve.
grace trying forget
God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else.
grace way mysterious
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. Leonard Cohen
grace gusto might
since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto. M. F. K. Fisher
grace doubt british
It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond. Lord Chesterfield