Quotes About Grace

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.

We forget how ready people are to help. You can talk all you want about the evil spirit of man. But I don't think it's true. I think most of us are just dying to be good. And one way we can do that is to forgive the bad in others as well as in ourselves. I don't say don't hold people accountable. Help them be accountable. But to say those words to yourself or another? 'I forgive you'? Most powerful words in the world.

Patience is not only a virtue; it is a form of grace

Goodness and mercy may not follow me all the days of my life, but it is here now.

I throw sticks for him, and it comes to me that it is a miracle I am able to do this: use my arm, full strength. Follow the course of the stick clearly. Walk without fatigue or pain. Assume, with blind confidence, that I will be able to do this tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that. Spend an afternoon with someone who has been told their number is up, and you will will regard everything you do later that day with grateful wonder. I mean, even laundry.

redemptive beauty, I think. Despite her

Arthur thinks that, above all, aging means the abandonment of criticism and the taking on of compassionate acceptance

Love purifies everything

woman is most beautiful when she is herself. The Japanese call it a beauty with 'inner implications.' It's not a show-off kind of thing, some peacock display of clothes and makeup and demeanor. It's quiet. Subtle. And here's the most interesting thing: Shibui relies on the ones looking at a person or an object to make something for themselves out

She tries to be a good Christian. Jesus went around forgiving everyone, though her personal belief is that he went a little too far with that business.

specific miracle

When he wrote down harebells, he told me that they looked delicate, but that they could grow between rocks.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

The speech of God's beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.

Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom.

When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.

Just as mental toughness and physical energy are the primary traits of an army, they also mark God's beautiful woman.

The design of redemption is to exhibit the grace of God in such a manner as to fill all hearts with wonder and all lips with praise.

Live to seek to draw close to God in all ways and seek His transforming love

Because of God's knowledge, you and I are always understood.

Pray for God's grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

God finds a way to weave even your mistakes into the fabric of a brighter future if you let Him.