Quotes About Grace

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.

If you come as softly as the wind within the trees. You may hear what I hear. See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly as threading dew, I will take you gladly, nor ask more of you.

In the future he would remember to be kinder to her clothing... provided that she didn't look so damn good in them.

Meie Isa kes sa oled taevas Jää aga sinna Ja meie jääme siia maa peale Mis on vahel nii kena

They say fifty lashes will kill a man. So I'll spare you the last one.

The hen that you are, how will you know what deceptive ways Grace will descend. It is Grace that brought you here and it is Grace that will deliver: I prefer the hen that looks up to the sky than an eagle that flies but always looking down. How high is not the question, but how intense is your longing for the sky. May you always be in Grace.

The hen that you are, how will you know what deceptive ways Grace will descend. It is Grace that brought you here and it is Grace that will deliver: I prefer the hen that looks up to the sky than an eagle that flies but always looking down. How high is not the question, but how intense is your longing for the sky. May you always be in Grace. – Sadhguru

He thinks I'm an angel. What would an angel say?

If wrinkles must be written on our brow, let them not be written on our heart. The spirit should not grow old.

he was warmed by the simplicity with which she got up for him, thoroughly awake.

And this is what it means to be able to see yourself as a sinner: far from "seeing yourself as a sinner" being some sort of moralistic demand that you browbeat yourself and come up with a list of alleged failings, being able to see yourself as a sinner is merely the sign that you are able to hold yourself peacefully and realistically as being who you are, non-defensively, because you know yourself loved. You are no longer frightened of being seen to be, or actually being, a failure.

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.

Libertà è accettare

Man's contribution, then, lies in the fact that man is able to cry out, "Christ, save me!" Man's freedom is summed up in the entreaty, "Accepting that all is grace, I ask you for grace." This is how we completely take into account both the fact that all is grace and the fact that, for its effect, Christ's grace depends on my freedom, too.

Al ritiro dei novizi hai dato una definizione bellissima di grazia: «Grazia, o amore, o misericordia, sono tre versioni dei salmi. La coerenza è una grazia, e se è una grazia è una festa. Perché la grazia significa che tu ti trovi sul tavolo un dono, un augurio: è la tua festa. Questa è ogni istante del vivere cristiano. Può essere ogni ora del vivere cristiano, è la tua festa. Il tempo ci è dato per questa festa».

Non è una «cosa» la grazia, la grazia è una presenza;

L'equilibrio, insieme al miracolo e all'intensità del vivere, è una delle tre caratteristiche del santo.

Dio ha fatto il cielo e la terra, ma solo il settimo giorno si riposò, dopo d'aver creato l'uomo, perché finalmente aveva qualcuno a cui perdonare».18

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures.