Quotes About Grace

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.

We must look to God for His grace and His power to perfect godly qualities in our lives.

Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.

Give me insight and wisdom in making my home reflect Your presence. You are welcome here! Amen.

Lord, my life is Yours. I want to please You in everything I do. I need Your guidance and strength and stamina. I love You. Amen.

The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.

God has already provided all you need to live this one day His way!

In God's hands, the ingredients of our lives will always work out ultimately for our good and, even better, for His eternal purposes.

Life need not be easy to be joyful. Joy is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of Christ.1

Mercy reflects the presence of the Lord in your heart and your life.

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.

When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, Dear God, that family needs grace. She replied firmly, That family needs casseroles, and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this _is_ grace.

The women I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.

What kind of dog is that? I would always give the same answer: She's a brown dog. Similarly, when the question is raised, What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnificent God.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself.

Because God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies

There is a hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Beauty attracts beauty.

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing and you were in the best possible place in the world for it - in a beautiful place of worship, surrounded by grace. Take this time, every minute of it. Let things work themselves out here in India.

Thank you for the tribute of your honesty," he said—which I thought then, and still think, was one of the most elegant things I'd ever heard anyone say.

Even if you are eighty years old, or a lesbian, or a strident feminist, or a nun, or an eighty-year-old strident feminist lesbian nun who has never been married and never intends to get married, the politest possible answer is still:Not yet.