Grace Quotations | Page 6

It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.

Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.

A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next 6 months, nor can he inhale sufficient air into his lungs with one breath to sustain life for a week to come. We are permitted to draw upon God's store of grace from day to day as we need it.

If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it.

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace,

Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray...

I am the hit-maker, the record-breaker. I got style and grace, a pretty face. I'll make your back crack, your liver quiver.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!

To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell, as of sin, which alone can send us thither. He who dreads sin avoids dangerous occasions, frequently recommends himself to God, and has recourse to the means of keeping himself in the state of grace. He who acts thus will be saved; but for him who lives not in this manner it is morally impossible to be saved.

Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.

A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a consolation; for God abounds with grace to all those who carry the cross with good will in order to please him.

Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love; He ardently desires to unite Himself with it. That is what Holy Communion does

God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God’s grace.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.

Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous

Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.

The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that he decided not to give us what we deserve- that's mercy. In addition, God decided to give us exactly what we didn't deserve- we call that grace.

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything; people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.

I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.

What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Grace is the understanding that God is a better savior than you are a sinner.

The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance to knowledge, and a state of nature to a state of grace.

Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun the snares of death?

... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.

Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons.

Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.

When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.

If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out

The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!

But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

I think one must do the thing -- whatever it is (and it changes from time to time) -- that unites you to the flowing stream of the world. At any price, one must do it first. Otherwise one can do nothing, nothing at all. One is out of touch, out of grace.

Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.

Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.

Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.

Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.

Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.

As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque forms and events -- in terms of the import to thought and their impetus to the spirit. In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence; I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery, newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy.

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank.

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth

In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.

He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe.

It is only as we remember and embrace His generous grace toward us that we can extend it to others.

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

In the state of grace, there is no such thing as opportunity lost that cannot be found.

Grace means forgiveness-period.

God’s grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it.

Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.

Your Heavenly body is going to be an awful lot like it is now, only better. And if you enjoy its pleasures now, think how marvelous they're going to be when your body is supernatural, really super, with more power and more beauty and more grace and greater thrills and more marvelous exciting experiences and love than ever!-All the pleasures of this life and Heaven too, and their continuation on the other side!

Trust and confidence in Christ and a ready reliance on His merits, mercy, and grace lead to hope, through His Atonement, in the Resurrection and eternal life. Such faith and hope invite into our lives the sweet peace of conscience for which we all yearn.

You see, growing in grace doesn't mean doing more or greater things for God. True growth comes in doing the same things over and over, with more heart assurance that we're doing everything for Him.

Let me tell you something about hypochondria: It's a pernicious, undermining little demon. It won't kill you, but it will sap the color from your life so that in the loveliest moments, the moments of grace, you are hit with that whisper in your ear that takes it all away. I'm sick, I'm dying - I just don't know it yet.

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.