Quotes about grace
grace virtuous
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful. Marcus Tullius Cicero
grace together philanthropy
Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts; it's about participation. It is about the grace that comes from working together. Marc Benioff
grace would-be mars
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait) Oscar Wilde
grace sorrow way
Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace. Matthew Fox
grace infinite great-music
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation. Marya Mannes
grace doe feels
Does this feel warmer or colder? Martha Beck
grace pages fiction
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page. Mark Helprin
grace soul sovereign
Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others. Oswald Chambers
grace favors needed
Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.
grace doe good-things
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.
grace soul foundation
Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.
grace growth sin
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
grace doe bears
Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.
grace born
Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible Frank O'Hara
grace should bicycle
If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion. Frances E. Willard
grace elude depth
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. George Santayana
grace thrones majesty
It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and glory do reside, and God is always to be considered by us as on a throne. John Owen
grace overcoming obstacles
In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect.
grace glory christ
To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.
grace despair no-fear
All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear. John Milton
grace wish saws
And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.
grace devil saving
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God. Jonathan Edwards
grace sake helping
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.
grace glory
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
grace sovereign mercy
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
grace divine divine-nature
Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature. Thomas Aquinas
grace doe
Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.
grace glory certain
Grace is a certain beginning of glory in us.
grace conformity imitation
Conformity is an imitation of grace. Simone Weil
grace void form
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
grace wish trouble
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
grace impossible depends
If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible. Sri Chinmoy
grace
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you. Thomas Merton