Quotes About Grace

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

Heaven is not for good people, it's for forgiven people.

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.

You don't have to be good to be Jesus's friend. You just have to be honest.

The single most loving act we can do is share the good news of Jesus Christ, that God saves sinners.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies, can go to Heaven.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

While the good news of the gospel may not appeal to everyone, the bad news of the gospel still applies to everyone.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

Jesus is not a good way to heaven, nor even the best way. He is the only way to heaven.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.

God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is "good enough" or "strong enough." He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

Good people don't go to Heaven, forgiven people do.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news.

Nothing is too good to be true.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.