Quotes About Grace

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing." "What's the difference?" Cecil asked. Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing is magic if you get what you want through it; but if it is blessed you get what God wants through it.

Be classy, if you must say anything at all. I think silence is very classy.

O voar não vem da asa. O beija-flor, tão abreviadinho de asa, não é o que voa mais perfeito?

Agora, já o barquinho balouça. Aos poucos se vai tornando leve como mulher ao sabor da carícia e se solta do colo da terra, já livre, navegável.

I get it now. I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible ... and enjoying everything in between.

Theology does not come easily. Better put, faithful theology comes by grace or not at all, while idolatry comes quite naturally to those of us who make our bed east of Eden.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but paddling like the dickens underneath.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath

You are an old soul, fortunately housed in very lovely wrapping.

Let's let go of the illusion that hesed can be reduced to one English "literal" word and instead see it as a key that can open a door into an entire world—the world of God's own heart, the world of loving

Let's ask for the grace to be in awe of the God who, when he opened the door of his life to us, had this word consistently on his lips, remembering that even though we have no right to expect anything from him he is pleased to give us everything. He is pleased to open his heart and life to us precisely because he is the God of hesed.

E mai mult decât frumoas?, se gândi, e ca un cadou din partea lui Dumnezeu.

There are three classes of souls: First, those who are in mortal sin, who are attracted by sensuality and live in this way. Second, those who live in grace and experience peace, interior consolations and desires to be good. Third, those who feel no interior consolation, but experience the impulses of grace and follow them and resist nature. This is the best state because we live in humility.

God made us without ourselves," to repeat the much-quoted saying of Saint Augustine, "but He cannot sanctify us without ourselves.

Michael D. O'Brien

The love God pours out on the world is effective in our lives to the degree that we open ourselves to it. Until we do, we presume it is just an abstraction.

Eventually he saw that he had been running to Christ, and the flight from the past had been one of the means used by God to propel him forward.

There is only one antidote—to find again the Bridegroom and beg His forgiveness. He will forgive. He is love, and He is truth. He will forgive everything.

Surely you must know that the most powerful graces cannot be felt in the senses or the affections.

He knew that extraordinary graces were given when they were needed, and not a moment before. The Holy Spirit never moved within believers as if they were puppet instruments, but rather in cocreative choices—Person and person working together in faith and freedom.

God wants you to know that nothing you do will ever destroy His love for you. He has sent a man back from the dead to tell you this." "I do not understand." "We do not understand because we are small creatures. You and I. All of us. Very small. To hide in His arms, that is the best thing we ever do.

He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.

The Lord is virtuous, He has patience in abundance. While we might think we are the ones in need of patience, it is really He who is exercising patience with us. Giving us the much needed time to repent, to realize that His way is the only way. I