Quotes About Grace

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

When Dad & I used to tell each other to try a little tenderness we meant calm down, be soft, stop having to be right, give a person the benefit of the doubt for a change.

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

For you, I wish for second chances

We were dandelion seeds released to the wind, she asked for no return. We are saplings now. With gentle hands.

Sometimes, life just worked out the way it was supposed to.

No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.

Do you not think, Mrs. Givings, that snow is always kind? Because it has to fall slowly, to meet the ground slowly, or the eyelash slowly— And things that meet each other slowly are kind.

Luther's point was that, according to Scripture, salvation is not a bake sale:

In other words, after Winthrop has acquired all his butter firkins, food stirrers, and beer along with six dozen candles, twenty thousand biscuits, and twenty-nine sides of beef, he goes through the Bible and writes down a bunch of verses commanding him to be willing to cheerfully give all that stuff away. My firkin is your firkin being one of Christianity's primary creeds.

Winning is not always about shining the brightest. Sometimes it's about sharing the light with someone who has been waiting in the shadows all along.

Yasy?ham anug?h??mi hari?ye tad-dhana? ?anai?: "I gradually take away all the wealth of those upon whom I am merciful.

The devotee does not cry out God's name while continuing to defy His laws. An honest devotee is not such a hypocrite or blasphemer of God's mercy.

God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.

O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.

And I prayed and prayed, 'Oh, you…Something,' I said, 'you Something because of whom there is not Nothing. Help me to do Thy will. Take off my stupid sins. Untrammel me. Heavenly Father, open up my dumb heart and for Christ's sake preserve me from unreal things. Oh, Thou who tookest me from pigs, let me not be killed over lions. And forgive my crimes and nonsense and let me return to Lily and the kids.

Io? Io amo la vecchia troia così com'è e mi piace pensare di esser pronto ad accogliere anche il peggio che essa abbia da offrirmi. Io veramente adoro la vita, e se non posso raggiungerla in faccia, lascio andare il mio bacio un poco più in basso.

This is the way of the weak; quiet and fair.

God gave us the Scriptures not just to inform or motivate us; more than anything he wants to save us.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

When we begin to see that heaven awaits us in the Mass, we begin already to bring our home to heaven. And we begin already to bring heaven home with us.

Thus, far from thinking that works produced by man's own talent and energy are in opposition to God's power, and that the rational creature exists as a kind of rival to the Creator, Christians are convinced that the triumphs of the human race are a sign of God's grace and the flowering of His own mysterious design.

God does not will that any of us should ever sin. Yet his will is accomplished in spite of our sins, and even through our sins.

The effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive. ~