Quotes About Grace

God builds for every sinner, if he will but come back, a highway of golden promises from the depths of degradation and sin clear up to the Father's house.

Men's graces must get the better of their faults as a farmer's crops do of the weeds--by growth. When the corn is low, the farmer uses the plough to root up the weeds; but when it is high, and shakes its palm-like leaves in the wind, he says, "Let the corn take care of them," for the dense shadow of growing corn is as fatal to weeds as the edge of the sickle.

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden--swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air.

Poverty is never by the grace of God in the estimation of a New-Englander. It comes to him by post from the other direction.

Christians are like vases, they must pass through the fire ere they can shine. The graces which are to be their everlasting beauty and glory must be burned in.

Grace is only nature blossomed out; nature won and warmed into its true growth.

The path of the sinner back to God is brighter and brighter all the way up to the smile of the face and the touch of the hand; and that is salvation.

Every time your enemy fires a curse, you must fire a blessing, and so you are to bombard back and forth with this kind of artillery. The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will.

God gives as the wheat gives: we sow one grain, and reap a hundred.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the eighteenth-century letter writer and biographer wrote: "Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

A saccharine, easy grace is no grace at all.

But now I can see that perfect simply means learning how to forgive and to accept and to do everything you can to love with your whole heart.

The way you look tonight. In that dress. Jesus, Brooke, you're beautiful.

What do you say to a dog before he eats?

Kindness is incredibly sexy.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.

To come from God, is to come from divine wisdom, love, and truth.

Then he smiled at me and for that moment, and just that moment, I forgave him everything—everything—because now I knew what joy looked like and I was part of it.

Her garments borrowed grace from her.

Do your best and let God do the rest.

I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.

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