Quotes About Grace

You've had a good life, haven't you? Despite messing up royally when you were my age. GeeGee laughed. Yes, dear. I have. A very good life. Sometimes a hard one. Life is full of hard things, even when it isn't us who have as you put it, messed up royally. but when we walk with God, life is always good, because He is.

Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you

He was not tall and handsome and flashing-eyed like his older brother, but there was kindness and grace in him, and intelligence in his unremarkable brown eyes.

He was a very useful bird, because he gave Grace and Hope and me something weaker than ourselves to worry over; and he sang as though he appreciated it.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.

The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Once you do this, abundance flows into your life and all your desires are filled with ease and grace. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Sé siempre amable».

Relate peacefully, as much as possible, with everyone. Even one enemy is an enemy too many. Pass through life gracefully, taking the high road when conflict shows up. Should someone do you wrong, let karma do the dirty work. And let a world-class life be your revenge.

Hers was a quieter, more profound loveliness, the kind that makes sunrises special and moonbeams enchanting.

En su último sermón antes de ser asesinado, Martin Luther King, Jr. dijo: «Todo el mundo puede ser grande… porque cualquiera puede servir. No hace falta un título universitario para servir. No hace falta hacer concordar el sujeto con el predicado para servir. Solo hace falta un corazón lleno de gracia. Un alma creada por el amor».

The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Once you do this, abundance flows into your life and all your desires are filled with ease and grace.

a little bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

The omnisecular spirit keeps the old with the new also. Nothing at all has suffered erasure. There is life not of our time. He calls ungainly bodies As beautiful as the grace of horses. He is weary of nothing; he watches air-planes; he watches pelicans.

So what happens when proovs get old? he asks, as if the subject is close to his heart. They age gracefully, Lanaya says with a smile. That's the best we can do.

Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.

The important thing, Father Pavel had said, is not our belief, but His grace. We refuse His gifts out of meanness, for we fear the cost of them. And yes, the cost is everything.

If those who 'gain all they can' and 'save all they can,' will likewise 'give all they can,' then the more they will grow in grace.

Eliza never lost her temper, never raised her voice, never scolded anyone—a style of understated authority that John inherited.

second rule, learned from a lifetime of bad luck and trouble: Maintain a little dignity.

She had all the right parts in all the right proportions.

The insights that freed Jud were similar to the ones that led to my own recovery from spiritual workaholism after being confronted by my boss years ago. I came to realize that God didn't love me because I made myself valuable through service; on the contrary, I was valuable because I was loved by God. I could stop working like a slave to justify myself; I just needed to recognize — and celebrate — my adoption as God's child.

God is the God of do-overs, and that should give us great hope. We really can be absolved of our past.

says he 'welcomes sinners and eats with them.'14 Now, think about that. In his culture, to dine with someone meant to offer friendship. The word welcome in Greek means that he took great pleasure in them. Jesus doesn't delight in sin, but he liked being around these people, maybe because they were well aware of their depravity, unlike many of the religious folks who masked it with hypocrisy.