Quotes About Grace

She smiled and the skin wrinkled around her eyes in that way that makes a woman beautiful.

morning shadows blossoming around her shoulders.

Tranquility in front of me. Calmness beside me. Stillness around me. Compassion inside me.

Every day we're one day closer to death. But there's no reason to rush into it.

Spring is magic~ sweet to the senes & easy to celebrate.

God loves us all. He does not love us more than he loves our enemies.

We must be content and think it no fault; /

every man has a last choice after the first, a chance of forgiveness. It is not too late. Turn. Come to the Light.

wants a second chance.

He was funny and charming, but also kind. It seemed the older she got, the more she appreciated kindness in people.

attractive now, she'd

I think that's what a fresh start is all about. Not ignoring the past, but seeing it through the eyes of God, through the eyes of grace. Knowing where we've been and where we're going. A fresh start isn't about forgetting; it's about perspective.

Take a chance on God. After all, He took a chance on you.

How about this—let's not let our past determine whether God loves us or not. He does. And we'll never get it right without him.

I think God's blessing might have everything to do with Him and His riches, and nothing to do with whether we deserve it.

Because He knew that no matter what we did, we would always need Him.

We expect God's love to be all nice and neatly packaged. But He'll do what He has to in order to draw us to that place where we need Him. Know Him. Are overwhelmed by His lover for us.

I'm not wicked." "Jensen, you've spent three years lying low, trying to make everything right. But you can't redeem yourself. You can't make yourself and your life whole again. God can.

I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

I hope [Willa] still thinks butterflies are beautiful. I think they are. We shouldn't think for a moment that just because their lives are short they shouldn't be here.

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

Para trascender el cuerpo, hay que pasar por un período de desenfreno físico y blasfemia verbal, sobre el principio de que sólo cuando la moral ha sido deliberadamente pisoteada, es capaz el individuo de una transformación radical: entrar en un estado de gracia que deja atrás todas las categorías morales.

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives, he told them. Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color.