Quotes About Grace

Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.

He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.

Ya nunca volvería a moverse con gracia y elegancia al compás de una música que solo él oía.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

I met a lady in the meadsFull beautiful, a faery's child;Her hair was long, her foot was light,And her eyes were wild.

Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths of green; Whose lips have words of comfort spread Needs not the holly-berries red— His very presence scatters wide The spirit of the Christmastide.

TO A WITHERED ROSE Thy span of life was all too short— A week or two at best— From budding-time, through blossoming, To withering and rest. Yet compensation hast thou—aye!— For all thy little woes; For was it not thy happy lot To live and die a rose?

No man is so regenerate, but that continually he has need of the means which Christ Jesus has appointed to be used in his kirk.

Rest is synonymous with grace, which is never seized by force but always taken hold of freely by faith.

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

mine is the only photograph of an American actor to grace the walls of the Actors' Bar at The Dirty Duck.

But, by the law of faith, faith is allowed to supply the defect of full obedience: and so the believers are admitted to life and immortality, as if they were righteous.

How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,The morn not waking till she sings.

The motivation of grace will always bear greater fruit than the coercion of demand.

Our conduct is not the basis for our salvation, but is influenced by our salvation.

Grace, too, is not an impersonal, metaphysical substance that trickles down to people through the sacraments, as in much popular Catholicism. Grace is an irreducibly personal category, first, in that it is a personal attitude of favor from God's heart, bringing us into relationship with him as our Savior, Friend, and Father.

We are all beautiful in the eyes of God.

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.

God loves to give. It's part of His nature, and He does it freely.

Win the ship a name of glory, win the men a death of grace

Even if Willa lives to be a hundred and is surrounded by children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, she will still miss her mother. So all she can hope for are unexpected moments of grace.