Quotes About Grace

Let's play our 'benefit of the doubt' game, shall we?" This was a game that I invented when she was little. The goal was to remind ourselves not to take things personally, to extend grace to others by recognizing that we don't know what's happening in their lives. What started as a way to teach empathy wound up being a wonderful tool for me.

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

And Jesus' words to Martha are the words he wants to speak to your heart and mine: "You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed." The "one thing" is not found in doing more. It's found by sitting at his feet.

Someday I'd be classy if it killed me—probably not today, though.

Lewis was an apologist from temper, from conviction, and from modesty. From temper, for he loved argument. From conviction, being traditionally orthodox. From modesty, because he laid no claim either to the learning which would have made him a theologian or to the grace which would have made him a spiritual guide.

The only real elegance is in the mind; If you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

What is elegance? Soap and water! CECIL BEATON

Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. — 1 PETER 4:10

Take everything as a compliment, you can never be insulted.

Ma says that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder,' Jeralene said. 'But that the Lord has put something pretty in everybody.

No price we can pay will achieve entrance into heaven, madam. The Lord has already paid that price for us all and requires only belief in that truth, as you surely know.' Will's smile didn't waver. 'However, we often have the opportunity to be used by the Lord and become an answer to prayer.

The Lord made a way. He has a knack for doin' that. Makin' a way outa no way.

The good Lord had miracles in his pocket but he hadn't sent one down for her.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

Just 'cause trouble comes visiting doesn't mean you have to offer it a place to sit down.

If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself in wisdom, and wear a smile.

The sky, as if taking a breath, lightens.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

The sweetness and fine expression of her voice attracted his attention to her figure, which had a distinguished air of delicacy and grace; but her face was concealed in her veil. So much indeed was he fascinated by the voice, that a most painful curiosity was excited as to her countenance, which he fancied must express all the sensibility of character that the modulation of her tones indicated.

He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and a big fist, waiting to punish us. He is not a wrathful God but a loving God who made each of us and loved us since we were in our mother's womb

pray for the grace to realize that no matter where you are, you are in the presence of the Lord.

God with us." When our sins made it impossible for us to come to him, God took the outrageous step of coming to us, of making himself susceptible to sorrow, familiar with temptation, and vulnerable to sin's disruptive power, in order to cancel its claim. In Jesus we see how extreme God's love is.

the Torah was not an onerous rulebook or a vast catalog of laws as we might think, but a gift from God that taught them how to live.

From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. —JOHN 1:16