Quotes About Grace

The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.

this is indeed a clear proof that the love of God to his people is entirely free from all motives and conditions in them, being before they had done either good or evil; and therefore did not arise from any goodness in them, nor from their love to him nor from any good works done by them:

You'd have made a helluva dancer, Big Guy,

I can forgive him for what he's done wrong because that's the way of life.

He heard you in the chapel and gave you more time to make things better. Time to say what you needed to say, do what you needed to do. It wasn't a joke! It was divine mercy, and you blew it! You were given what billions of people beg for, and you have the audacity to be angry about it?

The smile of God is victory.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,Forgive our foolish ways!Reclothe us in our rightful mind,In purer lives Thy service find,In deeper reverence, praise.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all His works, Has left His hope with all!

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

I suggest that we must be defined not by our salvation but by our faith. The "Lordship Salvation" debate is frustrating because sometimes proponents on both sides make it sound as if "salvation" is the reason for our faith.43 That cannot be right. Salvation is a benefit of our faith gained by the grace of God; God is the reason for our faith.

Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, / Nor have entered into the heart of man / The things which God has prepared for those who love Him" (1 Cor. 2:9).

She had faith that each moment would be finer than the last. She believed that people were good

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

God forgives and forgets sins, but He never forgets a good deed.

Out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

Manly deeds, womanly hands.

The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.

He who was not legalist at any other point, and who was ready without hesitation to pardon prostitutes and disreputable people, was nonetheless extremely strict upon one point: "only one who practices grace can receive grace.

O holy simplicity!

Forgive your neighbor's injustice. Then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. —Ecclesiasticus 28:2

you are born to move with grace, born to embrace novelty and variety, born to crave wide-open spaces, and, above all, born to love. But one of the more profound facts that will emerge is that you are born to heal. Your body fixes itself. A big part of this is an idea called homeostasis, which is a wonderfully intricate array of functions that repair the wear and tear and stress of living.

la plus belle des savants, la plus savante des belles