Quotes About Grace

holiness is not based upon fear, it is based upon perfect love which casts out fear.

I lit my last cigarette and said my little prayers. Clare, here's one for you. Susan, here's one for you. Jeanette, here's one for you. Paula, they're all for you. And the unborn. I sat there, singing along to The Little Drummer Boy, with those far off days, those days of grace, coming down. Waiting for the blue lights. Ninety miles an hour.

If you don't display a little more grace, I'm going to smear butter all over your face!

to humble the sinner; to exalt the Saviour; to promote holiness.

It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.

To say yes to reality is to host eternity.

When faced with one of life's givens, we might ask: "Why did such a terrible thing happen to a good person like me? I deserve better." The mindful version of that question is: "Yes this happened. Now what?" We will notice we are happier when we accept what we do not like about life as a given of life. Our mindful yes is an entry into this sheltering paradox. When

Each given of life comes to us trailing many graces.

Let's dance for fear your grace should fall Let's dance for fear tonight is all

The good news can be summarized in this way. You are far worse than you think you are, and you are more loved than you ever imagined you could be. Jesus came to show us both.

The message of the cross is not only that there is nothing you can do to oblige God to accept you, but nothing you need to do. It's all been done. But we have to have the humility to accept it, and luxuriate in it.

The worship God seeks relies completely on His initiative, knowing that the only true expression of worship is through the abandonment of all our agendas for His, as we trust in His sovereign power and unlimited grace.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God, but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin but for God's wrath on it.

The miracles do not cancel out evil, but I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous.

It won't always be wonderful. It depends on your state of grace.

Ne me retire pas l'idée, aussi incertaine soit-elle, que s'aventurer est toujours plus vivifiant que se contenir, que ce qui s'élance a plus de grâce que ce qui se ramasse. Un jour qui se lève, aussi merdique soit-il, même en novembre, même par temps de pluie, est toujours plus prometteur qu'un soir de juin qui a tout dit.

Grace and mercy are God's love language to mankind.

Belief in miracles is the confidence that, at rare and wondrous moments, grace may overcome fate.

To forgive is to put oneself in a larger gravitational field of experience than the one that first seemed to hurt us. We reimagine ourselves in the light of our maturity and we reimagine the past in the light of our new identity; we allow ourselves to be gifted by a story larger than the story that first hurt us and left us bereft.

We won't lower ourselves to your level, but if it makes you happy to destroy our elegance, then go ahead!

The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.

Well, Amy figured you don't need more than five minutes on this planet to figure out that one thing we know about God—maybe the only thing—is that he favors those who act.

Love. Forgive. As you forgive, you will be forgiven.

You have just convinced me the faith you have found is what I need. What I have longed for. There is nothing further you could have said that would have convinced me. But this? This need to forgive. That is real, Julia. Genuine. I know it cannot come from within – except by the help of your God. Would you tell me how I might receive this ability to forgive from the God you have claimed as your own?