Quotes About Grace

God does not waste our suffering. It always serves a purpose.

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.

Once upon a time, there was a little girl. She took long showers every night, swimming in the water rushing over her and washing her hair till it squeaked when she ran her hands down it, parents sighing why do you have to be so clean? It was like she knew, in a way. Like that water was grace and soon she would not be able to find it. Soon nothing would make her more than what she was. Nothing would make her whole.

Gracia…, esa es mi palabra favorita de la iglesia. Un estado del ser, algo por lo que puedes rezar, algo que Dios te puede conceder, algo que si se puede obtener. La perfección es inalcanzable, pero la gracia…, la gracia puede alcanzarse.

Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.

It's our duty to bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.

A yearning stirred in him that was not sexual but a kind of reaching toward her simplicity of form. He

I wonder if we are all condemned forever to live outside the grace of God.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

For Augustine, all true community depends on God's grace. Someday, perhaps Christianity and Christendom will be the same. But not yet, he said to himself

Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market.

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.

Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté.

The white men are landing. Cannons! Now we must be baptized, get dressed, and go to work. My heart has been stabbed by grace. Ah! I hadn't thought this would happen!

Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.

God did not elect any sinner because He foresaw that he would believe, for the simple but sufficient reason that no sinner ever does believe until God gives him faith; just as no man sees until God gives him sight. Sight is God's gift, seeing is the consequence of my using His gift. So

If Scripture teaches the imputation of sin, we should not stumble when we find it affirming the imputation of righteousness.

It is by doctrine (through the power of the Spirit) that believers are nourished and edified, and where doctrine is neglected, growth in grace and effective witnessing for Christ necessarily cease. How sad then that doctrine is now decried as "unpractical" when, in fact, doctrine is the very base of the practical life.

It is finished." Reader, do you believe it? Or are you trying to add something of our own to the finished work of Christ to secure the favor of God?

La gracia es una provisión para aquellos hombres que están tan caídos que no pueden levantar el hacha de la justicia, tan corruptos que no pueden cambiar su propia naturaleza, tan desobedientes a Dios que no pueden volverse a Él, tan ciegos que no pueden verlo, tan sordos que no pueden escucharlo, y tan muertos que Él mismo debe abrir sus tumbas y levantarlos a la resurrección.

The law was given that grace might be sought; grace was given that the law might be fulfilled" (Augustine).