Quotes About Grace

You posses a quality which can never belong to Mademoiselle Danglars. It is that indefinable charm which is to a woman what perfume is to the flower and flavor to the fruit, for beauty of either is not the only quality we seek.

Sighs united together are almost prayers; prayers coming from two hearts are almost acts of grace.

What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.

So when someone would love to see you fail, forgive them, and draw upon that motivation to succeed.

Every act of kindness is another step up Heaven's stairway.

The Holy Ghost likes to be invited into our midst.

The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven.

Es crucial, crucial, entender que no es nuestra búsqueda de la santidad lo que nos habilita para ver al Señor. Más bien, el Señor mismo es el que nos habilita para ver al Señor, no las cosas buenas que hacemos.

So "come, let us worship" (Psalm 95:6) the one, true God who has ordained the Spiritual Discipline of worshiping Him—in public, in the family, and in private—as one of the most bountiful means of receiving the grace to grow in Christlikeness. For as we grow in the worship of God, we grow in the likeness of Christ.

The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven. When

Hay un elemento de la adoración y de la vida cristiana que nunca puede experimentarse en la adoración a solas ni observando la adoración de otros. Hay algunas gracias y bendiciones que nuestro Padre nos da únicamente cuando nos «congregamos» con otros creyentes como familia de Dios.

Si has dejado de vivir para ti mismo y para el pecado, y has confiado en Jesucristo y Su obra para justificarte delante de Dios, entonces el Señor te ha dado el Espíritu Santo.

Cuando nuestra percepción de la grandeza de Dios y del evangelio es vaga, nuestras vidas de oración son insignificantes. Cuanto menos pensamos en la naturaleza y el carácter de Dios, y cuanto menos recordamos lo que Jesucristo hizo por nosotros en la cruz, menos queremos orar.

Ours is an undisciplined age. The old disciplines are breaking down. . . . Above all, the discipline of divine grace is derided as legalism or is entirely unknown to a generation that is largely illiterate in the Scriptures. We need the rugged strength of Christian character that can come only from discipline. V. RAYMOND EDMAN

Grace was tough and strong—mentally, emotionally and physically—and she cut through a lot of the nonsense. Hollywood was like a game for her. She was also a good businesswoman, and this allowed her to win in her struggles with MGM. She knew how to play the corporate game, and she played it so that it worked for her.

But she never distanced herself from others, and she was enormously friendly to everyone—no stuffy attitude, no star complex. As for her talents, Grace acted the way Johnny Weissmuller swam or Fred Astaire danced—she made it look easy. And she probably went through life being completely misunderstood, since she usually said exactly what she meant.

I like perfume and flowers.

How beautiful, the grace of women; how soft their charity.

When it comes to age, it's all about the quality of the preservation,

Nothing unleashes the favor of God like a godly response to an unfair situation.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.

If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives...