Quotes About Grace

My practice is to cut the finished product on the diagonal and then wrap it in waxed paper that I still fold the way my Aunt Gin taught me. I'd added two Milano cookies and, being ever so dainty, I included two paper napkins, one to serve as a place mat and one for dabbing my lips.

God loved you before you were born, and God will love you after you die. In Scripture, God says, 'I have loved you with an everlasting love.' This is the fundamental truth of your identity. This is who you are, whether you feel it or not. You belong to God from eternity to eternity. Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, 'I love you too.

I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall – I dove.

Regrets don't help anything.

Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy.

we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

One day i will have to forgive life for ending. I tell myself I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality.....just be what ti is.

If God said in plain language, "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language, I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die. A lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin. -Sue Monk Kidd

What is bound will be unbound. What is cast down will be lifted up. That is the promise of Our Lady.

Pay them no mind and turn the other cheek. Their hearts are boulders and their heads are straw.

Good night," I said, and rolled onto my side. "There is nothing perfect," August said from the doorway. "There is only life.

There is nothing perfect... There is only life.

The echo of one of God's deepest truths: delight can emerge from and exist along with our scars.

It had not occurred to me that my abilities had been intended, that God had meant to bestow these blessings on me.

Jesus's capacity for mercy baffled me. I didn't know if I could give up the wrongs my father had done, the way I hauled them around like an ossuary of precious old bones. Jesus made it seem as if one could just lay them down.

but now when I'm reviled, I try to look the other way. It does the world no good to return evil for evil. I try now to return good to them instead.

Oh, Ana, Ana. When I tell you all shall be well, I don't mean that life won't bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what.

the egrets lifting out of the marxh carrying the light on their backs.

It's always a marvel when one's pain doesn't settle into bitterness, but brings forth kindness instead.

There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meter out in these precious sips. I would well up from Hugh's heart in spoonfuls, and he would feed it to me. And it would be enough.

It's always a marvel when one's pain doesn't settle into bitterness, but brings forth kindness instead

But he was Jesus, and I was Ana. I wasn't ready to let go of my animosity toward Judas. I would do so in time, but right now it saved me. It left less room inside for pain.

To create newness you have to cover the soul and let grace rise.