Quotes About Grace

Although repentance comes because God pardons...the man becomes aware of the pardon only in repentance.

the blessing is the truth itself-the God-known truth, that the Lord has the heart of a child.

He that sees the essential in this child, the pure childhood, sees that which is the essence of me," grace and truth-in a word, childlikeness. It follows not that the former is perfect as the latter, but it is the same in kind, and therefore, manifest in the child, reveals that which is in Jesus.

We have received a kingdom that cannot be moved—whose nature is immovable: let us have grace to serve the Consuming Fire, our God, with divine fear; not with the fear that cringes and craves, but with the bowing down of all thoughts, all delights, all loves before him who is the life of them all, and will have them all pure.

but he takes our sins on himself, and while he drives them out of us with a whip of scorpions he will yet make them work his ends. He defeats our sins, makes them prisoners, forces them into the service of good, chains them like galley-slaves to the rowing-benches of the gospel-ship

He did not accept the good news of God; he strained it to his heart, and was jubilant over it.

Let a man think and care ever so little about God, He does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him - making life a good thing to him. God gives him Himself, though he knows it not.

To do as God does, is to receive God; to do a service to one of his children is to receive the Father.

The man who takes no count of what is fair, friendly, pure, unselfish, lovely, gracious,—where is his claim to call Jesus his master? where his claim to Christianity? What saves his claim from being merest mockery?

For God alone is our salvation; to know him is salvation. He is in us all the time, else we could never move to seek him.

George MacDonald

I never had been by any means a book-worm; but the very outside of a book had a charm to me. It was a kind of sacrament—an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace; as, indeed, what on God's earth is not?

Every gift of God is but a harbinger of his greatest and only sufficing gift—that of himself.

You must be strong with my strength and blessed with my blessedness, for I have no other to give you.-George MacDonald (what God says of us)

Suffering While the cup of blessing may and often does run over, I doubt if the cup of suffering is ever more than filled to the brim.

These are they who gather grace, as the mountain-tops the snow, to send down rivers of water to their fellows.

From all that is thus low and wretched, incapable and fearful, he who made the water into wine delivers men, revealing heaven around them, God in all things, truth in every instinct

That is her style of beauty.

It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not?

That's her style of beauty.

To me she is a goddess of love and dignity whose pleasure it is to aid those who are in need and to reward those who are deserving.

Guard well within yourself that treasure - kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

j'ai bien senti le beau dans le simple

It's hard to get any beauty at all into a story. If and when we do, it might not be the type of beauty we've always dreamed of making. But we have to take whatever beauty we can get, however we can get it.