Quotes About Grace

The horse is God's gift to mankind.

In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we've done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can't.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner's salvation—but the clear practical knowledge of the fact that he cannot save himself, and is entirely dependent on the saving grace of God.

The more grievous the world, the more we need to remember the luminous beauty at the center of life.

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.

She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly

In our daily lives, moving from struggle to grace requires practice and commitment.

If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis, all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. —FREDERICK BUECHNER

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

Ring the bells that still can ring; forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.

I applaud the needlessly beautiful in all things.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

Beauty is the gift of God.

Nature, we see, has variously moulded the human frame: some men are strongly built, and firmly compacted; others erect and graceful, unfit for toil and drudgery, but capable of sustaining honourably the offices of war and peace. This, however, holds not universally; for a servile mind is often lodged in a graceful person; and we have often found bodies formed for servitude, animated by the souls of freemen.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

if you're going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don't you think?

To look good in defeat is the ultimate a person can want.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Grace, combined with insight and choice, is the means of change."32

There's nothing more interesting than painting women, it's the greatest subject that can be.

Rule 3. Say no to contempt. Treat others with love and respect, even when it's difficult.