Quotes About Grace

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Our security, once and for all, lies with no one but God and our relationship with Him. And we need not be obsessed with that relationship for it to give us peace. We need do little more than seek to know God better for the grace to come.

Biscuits are rough, potatoes are tough. I pray to God we all get enough.

Come and take your seat, Lady Dorina.

I may not be perfect, but God knows I'm trying . . . and God knowing should count for something.

Marriage is not about our ultimate happiness," she replied. "That is a lie from the devil. Marriage was made to refine us, to grow our character. It exposes the worst in us so that we see the need for humility, grace, forgiveness, and, most of all, our need for Jesus in our marriage.

If there is room in your heart, you'll make room in your home.

It all comes down to you and Jesus.

We might have to choose to let go of the need to prove our point, choosing instead to do the right thing: to impart grace and deal with the other person in love and with utmost patience.

When a family member's behavior threatens to knock the nice right out of us, we can pause. Recalculate. Punch in a different destination for the words now downloading from our brains onto our tongues. We can program them to first stop at gentleness, swing by to pick up respect, and finally — arrive with grace.

Just Because You Have a Reason to Retaliate Does Not Mean You're Justified in Doing So

each word takes from my mind to my heart to my lips be guided by your hand. May what comes out be life-giving rather than causing death. May my words make you proud and bring you glory. In Jesus' name, Amen. * Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain (New York: Morgan Road Books, 2006), 4.

God is patient. He doesn't fly off the handle in anger.

What is the result of intentionally speaking graciously to our family, friends, and other necessary people? Of loving them without stopping? Of containing our anger when we speak and dealing with them in a patient and faithful way? When we choose to lace our words with grace, healing happens: "Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones" (Proverbs 16:24). Yes

Peter prescribes four actions, each expressed in main clauses containing an aorist imperative form and each qualified by subordinate clauses: (1) set your mind on the grace ahead, (2) be holy in your whole way of life, (3) love one another earnestly, and (4) crave pure spiritual milk.

slowly, "You care too much, Will. Do not let His Grace

You are Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon

True faith is not hard at all. It is soft in its resilience, yielding in its certitude — the vehicle for absolute grace.

Practice acceptance on yourself so you can be kinder with your child. Practice nonjudgmental awareness of your life so you can save your loved ones from the cruelty of your own impossible standards and your hard-hearted disappointment. Practice greater faith and lesser blame. Take this blink of time when you are still stumbling at the gate, still awkward at the tasks, to turn down the sound and tumble freely in a state of grace. Life

It's not so bad to find yourself free of the effort to overcome your life. It's not so bad.

Nightfall. "What a strange word. 'Night' I get. But 'fall' is a gentle word. Autumn leaves fall, swirling with languid grace To carpet the earth with their dying blaze. Tears fall, like liquid diamonds Shimmering softly, before they melt away. Night doesn't fall here. It comes slamming down.