Quotes About Grace

The best people are the ones you have to forgive for everything. You have no choice; it would be worse to live without them.

Never was there any one so beautiful as [he]... The wolves did not ravage, the frost winds did not bite...

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

God does work through hurt. God works in the midst of all things.

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to

A responsible man remained unflappable in the face of personal loss. He would wave away an affront...

It is a time for quietness and prayer. Death is present with us every day of our lives, it behooves us to take note of its nearness, not as a threat, but as our common experience on the way to grace. There is no more to be said. It is better to accept the will of God, and be silent.

The grace of God is not endangered by the follies or the wickedness of men.

you will tell me roundly that God's reach is longer than man's." "It had better be," said Brother Cadfael very solemnly, "otherwise we are all lost." Turn the page to continue reading from the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael

Traffic with the world is laid upon us for chastening, and for the testing of our vocation. The grace of God is not endangered by the follies or the wickedness of men.

this was an ageless voice that might have belonged to a child or an angel. Blessed be the human condition, thought Cadfael, which allows us marred and fallible creatures who are neither angels nor children to make sounds like these, that belong in another world. Unlooked for mercies, undeserved grace!

God sort all! As doubtless he is doing, now as ever!

Half light, half shade,She stood, a sight to make an old man young.

Wearing all that weightOf learning lightly like a flower.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

lleva su inolvidable belleza con la distraída tranquilidad de quien es mucho más profundo que el estar siendo bonita todo el tiempo.

Only He who has the power to punish can pardon.

Take warning! He has not exposed so many of your sinful activities that it appears as if He has forgiven you (it may be that He has given you time to repent).

Overlook and forgive the weaknesses of the generous people because if they fall down, God will help them.

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

The eyes were too intense, tortured almost. He was tall, but the body was wiry rather than powerful. Nature had gifted him with a cats grace and lethal swiftness, rather than the raw power of a bull.

He was, she thought, as beautiful as a young god, lying on his side among the grass and flowers

Gawd might forgive but people never will.

How old, how commonplace To look upon the face Of your first-born, and glory in your lot. To look upon his face And understand your place Among the unknown dead in churchyards lying, To see the reason why You lived and why you die-- Even to find a certain grace in dying.