Quotes About Grace

The only thing evil can't stand is forgiveness.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

I know that when I walk out of the studio someday and there is a child who has Downs Syndrome, for instance, and that child comes up and gives me a hug, I know that that's the field I want to be growing in. Because I see that people who are not the fancy people of this world are the ones who seem to nourish my soul. And I want to learn how to be the best receiver that I can ever be. Because I think graceful receiving is one of the most wonderful gifts we can give anybody.

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect—on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

One of my wise teachers, Dr. William F. Orr, told me, "There is only one thing evil cannot stand and that is forgiveness.

All I can do is be myself. I've had the grace to be able to do that. I walk into the studio and I think, 'Let some word that is heard be Thine.

The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

Though we deserve your wrath, you instead always give us compassion.

God loves us and saves us because we are his. It's difficult for us to grasp how absolute his side of the relationship is; he loves us even while we are sinners, and nothing can halt or deflect the force of his love. He is love, and his love fills the universe.

Christ frees us, not just from the penalty for sin, but from sin itself (John 1:29).

The grace of God means something like Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget.

The only way to Heaven is "G D'SWAY"!

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.

Lord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes.

It is only by the sharp thorn of his [Christ's] suffering that the poisonous thorn of our sin is drawn.

Christ embraced me with all my sin and guilt that I may embrace him in all his righteousness.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.