Quotes About Grace

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

A sword may be surrendered with more grace and dignity than a point of view.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter. Only as a secondary consideration does he hope that some benefit may accrue to himself from the transformed substance as the panacea, the medicina catholica, just as it may to the imperfect bodies, the base or "sick" metals, etc. His attention is not directed to his own salvation through God's grace, but to the liberation of God from the darkness of matter.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts. Who ever succeeded in draining the whole cup with grace?

Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously. People

Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously. People call faith the true religious experience, but they do not stop to consider that actually it is a secondary phenomenon arising form the fact that something happened to us in the first place which instilled pistis into us — that is, trust and loyalty.

El Occidente cristiano considera que el hombre depende por entero de la gracia divina o, por lo menos, de la Iglesia, único instrumento terrenal de la redención sancionado por Dios. Oriente, por el contrario, insiste una y otra vez en afirmar que el ser humano es el único responsable de su evolución espiritual. Oriente, en efecto, cree que es posible redimirse a sí mismo.

It's strange how often human beings die without any kind of style.

abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds

What would release be? Being forgiven? No, never forgiven, never only forgiven.

Always remember that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

Simplicity," I said, "is true elegance. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed. Her clothing should be seen only after she herself is.

Any man who has been placed in the White House cannot feel that it is the result of his own exertions or his own merit. Some power outside and beyond him becomes manifest through him. As he contemplates the workings of his office, he comes to realize with an increasing sense of humility that he is but an instrument in the hands of God.

An old woman, still beautiful, but bent, softened with time.

Like being able to hold the clear, pure essence of the very world itself in within your hands, and then take it in with one long swallow.

Her idea had a beautiful simplicity at first.

The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism rather than of the grace from which he benefited.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

Gratitude is the heart's memory. French Proverb

Choosing to believe that something larger than you is at work in, through, and for you is the starting point for all the good things life has to offer. Trust this larger life to support and sustain you. Trust a wisdom greater than your limited knowledge to be provider and guide in all situations, for the highest good of all.

Every sunset is my world turning. Every season is good and offers its bounty to me. Every moment is mine to embrace for it is the Eternal Now forever expressing in, through, and for me. I live in the Forever Here that is alive in all. Translucent grace shines in us, awake and aware of the beauty we are as we become all we were meant to be. And so it is.     For

Judge not and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back. Luke 6:37-38 (RSV)