Quotes About Grace

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you," he said, "by the grace of God.

I have lived through parts of life that no one in her right mind would ever willingly have chosen, finding enough overlooked treasure in them to outweigh my projected wages in the life I had planned. These are just a few of the reasons that I have decided to stop fighting the prospect of getting lost and engage it as a spiritual practice instead.

It doesn't mean we forget what's been done to us. But we remember that we don't have to understand God, just to trust Him and have faith in Him.

It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.

the Sunshine and Shadow design. The Amish A Devoted Christian's Prayer Book contained the prayer, "We pray, O Holy Father, that we might leave behind the night of sin and guilt and ever walk in the shining light of Thy wondrous grace, and cast off the works of darkness, put on the armor of light, and walk honestly as in the day.

We should confess our sins to God, Torilla, but never, if it would hurt them, to other people. . . . If anyone must bear the consequences of a wrong action, it should be the person who had done it.

Love's greatest gift is its' ability to make everything it touches sacred....

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

The discipline of the Gospel is coming to God on His terms.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay due to our present situation, or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, unbounding love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy.

With so many cesspools to fall into in life, we need a spring we can go to for splashes of joy — a spring full of living water that only Jesus provides. The foundation of all joy for Christians is that we can live as though Christ died yesterday, rose today, and is coming tomorrow.

Jane wanted to agree and to offer him the broken dwarf, perhaps for Constance's grave, as a kind of comment on the futility of earthly love, but instead she said gently, 'You must make Jessie happy. That will be the right thing for you now.

Yet, when one came to think of it, the only flowers that were really perfect were those, like the peonies that went so well with one's charming room, that possessed the added grace of having been presented to oneself.

October. She knew that she dared not pray for humility, to be granted the grace of humility, it being such a precious thing, but when others were decorating the church for Harvest Festival she chose a humble, even humiliating task, emptying the cat's tray, bundling the soiled Katlitta into a newspaper. Yet had she even chosen it – it was just something that had to be done. Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.

Yet there was no reason why one's death should not, in its own way, be as elegant as one's life, and one would do everything possible to make it so.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

I am in general susceptible to style.

ecclesiam nulla salus

The worst slavery is that which we voluntarily impose upon ourselves; and no chains are so cumbrous and galling as those which we are pleased to wear by way of grace and ornament.

He that is without sin among you, let him be first to stone her.

For it is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

But grace is always hard for rebels to understand; their view of God is too small.

The cross places us under a far greater obligation to love than the exodus ever could.

you needn't be so busy fighting and punishing yourself.