Quotes About Grace

First John 1:9

Faith is two empty hands held open to receive the Lord Jesus Christ.

tomb, and now He invites everyone who is tired and weary and sick to come that he may set you free from all of it. As we sing, will you come and give your heart and soul and body to the Lord Jesus Christ.

awkwardness, there were traces of grace and strength as he

This time I want to do it differently. You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power. So what if I die. Let me discover what it is that I want and fear from love. Power and love, might and grace. That I may desire again. I would be the lover, am barely the Beloved.

Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won't miss the one with your name on it.

Love shows up, and you had nothing to do with it.

Life unfolds as it will regardless of whether we like what's happening or not. By opposing life, we eventually learn this truth. We learn how impotent our opposition to life is and that this opposition causes only suffering. What's left is choosing to agree with life—to love whatever is, no matter what that looks like.

But the hero lets the future take care of itself, because he knows the future never actually arrives. In reality, all there ever is, is one moment moving naturally and gracefully into the next, with or without the mind's ceaseless thoughts.

yo os pregunto, señor podestá, si él ha tomado de mí siempre lo que ha necesitado y le ha gustado, ¿qué debía hacer yo (o debo) con lo que me sobra? ¿Debo arrojarlo a los perros? ¿No es mucho mejor servírselo a un hombre noble que me ama más que a sí mismo que dejar que se pierda o se estropee?

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!

Willingness to forgive frees the soul to laugh and cry and be The Beloved.

As I free myself through Forgiveness, Myself dances around Myself. I stand in the Light.

Forgiveness is never not possible.

O Lord and Master of my life, Take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk, But grant rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to your servant. Yes, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults, and not to judge my brother and my sister, For You are blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.

I'd heard a Catholic nun on TV once saying that bearing suffering was the route to grace. I remembered Fluff saying: If there's a God he's addicted to faith. Because without evil there's no need for faith. I can't get excited about a God who's divinity depends on a drug habit.

But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

I did not know death then, that he is no more to be feared than the man on the black horse. He can be kind, time teaches us. He will lend a hand. Grace is his comrade, memory his foe. In the end he prevails, but triumphs not, so long as we remember.

God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.

I believed that was the point of real forgiveness: It was freely given. Grace-filled. Unsolicited.

Someone once told me that everyone deserved to be loved. Even the unlovable? Maybe especially them.

to forgive is the first step toward redeeming the sin.