Quotes About Grace

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.

God is not a taker. God is a giver.

When God breathes He breathes on hard-hearted people.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your Father on your face.

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.

No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.

God will facilitate, but He will not force.

If families give Our Lady fifteen minutes a day by reciting the Rosary, I assure them that their homes will become, by God's grace, peaceful places.

Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.

Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need.

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

If God did not act first, no one would be saved.

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.