Quotes About Grace

You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

The more you act like a lady, the more he will act like a gentleman.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

They were struggling and often in quite a lot of pain and concern, but still, they were all right. I thought to myself as I looked around, 'What we're all doing is we're all managing gracefully.' [p.5]

The first is about spiritual living. I think it's plain. Ordinary people do it, and they don't even know they are doing it. In the middle of plain lives, with regular joys and griefs, they live with grace and kindness and are happy.

Der Herr Gott ist raffiniert aber Boshaft ist Er nicht

My mother taught me how to find grace in wreckage. She taught me not how to reassemble, but how to rearrange. The stained-glass pictures she made were certain evidence that things can be broken and put back together, and that the mended thing will be more beautiful than the original.

You will never realize that Jesus is all you need, before he becomes all you have.

Uncorseted, her friendly bustGives promise of pneumatic bliss.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

Grace knocks us flat, preventing any form of self-congratulation.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

Because you have messed up, many of you believe your calling has been annulled. The devil is a liar, for "the gifts and calling of God are without repentance" (Rom. 11:29). That is, they are irrevocable—He's not taking them back.

Because we have offered no provision for sons and daughters who fall, many of our Adams and our Eves are hiding in the bushes.

God remembers you. I know you may find that difficult to believe, but hear me: He remembers you. He has always remembered you!

Even in the moments of your greatest anguish, you often find unexpected blessings alongside and commingled with your losses.

Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who have made it back home.