Quotes About Grace

There was something satisfying in a cessation of paddling on smooth water. It was like watching a flock of ducks all stop beating at once and sail over a bank of trees on extended wings.

Ren thought she was beautiful; if her features had a purity it was because, he thought, the light that burned inside her was pure.

It didn't get better, not in my book. I mean if you weren't looking too hard at what just happened or who might be down the road or at some other stuff. Maybe living well is the art of not looking at that, at the other stuff, when you don't have to. Or being okay with it.

And a spiderweb's gleamings in the exposed roots of a cut bank. And in a tailwater pool: the spreading rings of rising trout, dapping silently like slow rain.

with a sense of having been spared and having been blessed.

She had taught him almost everything he knew about moving through the world with some semblance of grace, and he tried to live it and bumbled often and tried again. She had taught him courage in the landscapes of the imagination, and to find the joy in things when he was afraid.

So if you find yourself hoping against God, and the thought of everyone being saved isn't good news to you, but bad news to you; if grace burns you like fire – you need to ask yourself why.

Strange Christianity, whose most pressing anxiety seems to be that God's grace might prove to be all too free on this side, that hell, instead of being populated with so many people, might some day prove to be empty! ~ Karl Barth, God Here and Now

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without awareness that I'm carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.

While God did rest from His creative work, since the Fall He has never rested from His redemptive work.

A church characterized by a small experience of forgiveness will be characterized by a small expression of love.

scripture that Jesus was intending to convey. The Sermon on

Father forgive me for I have sinned. -Damian

which had all the architectural grace of a maximum-security prison,

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

We do not stand in any experience which we have had, we do not stand in any progress which we have made, we do not stand in our success in the battle against sin. We stand in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which he has justified us.

It is not difficult to imagine that music, like Dante's Beatrice, is one of the ways in which grace operates through beauty—that music, like Beatrice, is a mediator.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,