Quotes About Grace

When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.

The great sages of my Indian heritage had cultivated equanimity and detachment in the face of life's challenges, and I strove to emulate them by accepting what had happened to me with as much grace as I could muster.

Little faith is enough to see the mountains of sin but not enough to see that Son of Righteousness that shall arise over them.

Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest.

God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

We have to receive, not achieve, in order to be saved.

For God does not command the impossible, but by commanding he instructs you both to do what you can and to pray for what you cannot, and he gives you his aid to enable you.333

Speak to souls about this great mercy while it is still the time for granting mercy. If you keep silent now you will be answerable for a great number of souls on that terrible day.

Hatred for sin is important. Confidence in the mercy of God is even more important.

Union with God of this depth is totally unattainable by our own efforts; it is a gift that only God can give; we are totally dependent on His grace for progress in the spiritual life. Yet

As we dispose ourselves for union by turning from sin and from all inordinate attachments as best we can, and as we focus our lives on God, the Lord by degrees gives us graces in prayer such as Teresa has been describing, which help to bring about the transformation.

If we have not sinned as seriously it is because of God's grace preventing and protecting us, which gives us the right and duty of being as deeply grateful and passionately loving as the greatest of forgiven sinners.

And so when you perceive that you are being humiliated, look on it as the sign of a sure guarantee that grace is on the way

None of God's elect die before they are converted.

To be merciful to [indwelling] sin is to be cruel to yourself.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.