Quotes About Grace

God is doing for me what I could not do for myself. It is all an incomparably beautiful mystery.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

I have faith that yields to none, and ways without reproach, and unadorned simplicity, and blushing modesty.

The creature we call a GENTLEMAN lies deep in the hearts of thousands that are born without chance to master the outward graces of the type.

Dr. MacBride had a manner of saying "pardon me," which rendered forgiveness well-nigh impossible.

Grace is unmerited favor. It is reward given to those who deserve judgment. Grace means that Christ takes the punishment we deserve, so that we can get the reward that Christ deserves.

The cross of Christ is the focal point of the gospel. It is the heart and soul of the gospel. Why? Because Christ's suffering and death on the cross, more than any other event in history, displays before our eyes the glory of God. There we see the love of God hidden in his wrath, the mercy of God concealed in his justice, and the grace of God displayed through the demands of his holiness. In addition, we see ourselves. We see the horror of our sin. We see our failings as God sees them.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."

"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when".

yielding our seat on a bus whenever it seems appropriate; alerting the person sitting behind us on a plane when we are about to lower the back of our seat; standing close to the right-side handrail on an escalator; stopping to give directions to someone who is lost; stopping at red lights; disagreeing with poise; yielding with grace when losing an argument, these diverse behaviors are all imbued with the spirit of civility.

The only preaching which is up to date for every time is the preaching of this eternity, which is opened to us in the Bible alone – the eternal of holy love, grace and redemption, the eternal and immutable morality of saving grace for our indelible sin.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

El cura del pueblo, de apellido Morales, intentó confesar a Ocampo y recibió una amable respuesta: —No se moleste usted, yo estoy bien con Dios y él está bien conmigo.

Life is a gift. The Lord never promised any of us permanent happiness on earth. But—and here's the saving grace—he will give us the strength we need to keep on going if we ask him.

I am a child of God and therefore do not inherit sickness.

Instead of getting personally involved in our problem, we can just as easily let go and let the majesty of the universe do its glorious thing.

Compassion is sexy, and it's good karma.

Others have more beauty in their face/Without thy heart:/To some is giv'n more honour, birth or grace,/And ye thou art/To my thoughts as the star,/That sparks so bright above,/Seems to the moth so far/Yet holds his love

He was, she realised, quite graceful. The very idea surprised her. Male grace was a quality she'd never thought of beyond the ballroom; either a man could dance a quadrille with skill and without stepping on her feet or he could not. But here was another kind of grace altogether--and untrained grace, an instinctive animal grace.

A man walked in long strides through the darkness toward them. Nothing but a dark silhouette, shadow against shadow, he walked down the alley with the grace of a predator.

Jos on vain lakannut kiinnittämästä huomiota ja syönyt kakkua, tuntuu helpommalta antaa itselleen anteeksi ja syödä tiedostavasti taas seuraavalla aterialla.