Quotes About Grace

I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. JEREMIAH 31:34

This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. MATTHEW 26:28

God's love, mercy, grace, goodness, kindness, and patience do not cancel out or water down His standard of perfect holiness. There is no spectrum of holiness. It is completely black and white. Just one speck of sin, corruption, or imperfection results in impurity.

Ask Him to fill your life until you overflow with His love — even for those you don't like!

God cares about each of us and all of us — period! And because He really does love you — He really does care about you — you and I can run, but we can't outrun Him.

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

Elegance is really a kind of control.

Elegance is a kind of control.

The Beauty that comes from within is the most Beautiful of all

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

The butterfly owns her now. It covers her and her wounds.

We moved like angels washing themselves. We moved like two birds on fire. — Anne Sexton, from "How We Danced" in "The Death of the Fathers," The Norton Anthology of American Literature , ed. Baym et al, 5th edition, Volume 2, (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1998)

and she wore gowns as lovely as kisses…

It is without grace. There is no rhythm in this country of dirt.

It's a plié. You do it on all the positions. It's very good for dramatic moments.

It occurred to her that Mikaela was being nice to her. She did not know how to react, for when your heart has been poisoned and someone picks a dandelion for you -- because it is bright and yellow and you seem like you could use something like that -- all you can do is contemplate the funny ways of weeds.

Görelim Hak ne eyler, N'eylerse güzel eyler.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

She wonders when it was that she began to despair. All these years she mistook it for pious resignation. Now she sees the difference. Such a fine line between a state of grace and a state of mortal sin. What is the good of believing fervently in God if you wind up hating Him?