Quotes About Grace

Each day the sun shone, the birds lingered, though the trees were turning, purely out of habit, and their rose and yellow and rust looked strange and beautiful above the brilliant green grass.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.

God has plans for you and His plans are for good because God Himself is good. He can neither think nor do evil.

God's Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

I think I deserve something beautiful.

There's a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that's how the light of God gets in.

those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.

Whatever had made the Dean take such a fancy to him, a cowardly, selfish, obstinate, ugly old fellow like him? He would never understand it. He took the piece of paper out of his pocket and looked at that too. Faith in God. God. A word he had always refused. But the Dean had said, put the word love in its place.

Peace....Henrietta was not quite sure what it was but she knew it was very important. If one wanted it, Grandfather had told her once, one must not hit back when fate hit hard but must allow the hammer-strokes to batter out a hollow place inside one into which peace, like cool water, could flow.

And as for herself, if she could manage to welcome sorrow as readily as joy, it would shape her as deftly as joy could have to whatever beauty of being it was within her power to reach...

His hostess was one of those women who even in an overcrowded room can create a sense of spaciousness.

There was no resentment in her manner, for acceptance and not resentment was the essence of her...

The value of little things was heightened by her enjoyment of them; the value of life itself was heightened because she had bought her knowledge of it with bitter sorrow and yet in her old age could wear it with such grace.

Those who think themselves entitled to everything, often find themselves entitled to nothing.

Aunt Zoë gave her a pot of Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream. 'Put it on your mouth at night,' she said. 'It's wonderful for stopping chapped lips.

Rumi tells us that moment we accept what troubles we've been given, the door will open.

In their most broken moments they were brought to their knees; they were humbled; they were opened.

And he was telling me that behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego. Would that it take something less than fierce grace to break us open.

A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.

History remembers the velvet hearted.

Some people ask me what it's like to be forgiven, to feel grace. It's like walking on a long stretch of beach with nothing in sight but sky and waves and sand. With the sun piercing its brightness, the water tickling my toes, the roaring of the sea singing omniscience and power and yet, a deep peace, the waters changing from sandy brown to light green to a heavy blue, the waves cresting with the white peaks and then rushing to find my toes.