Quotes About Grace

Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.

The power that flows from His name, the name Jesus, will be in proportion to our love for His Word.

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.

To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.

Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

The power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion He has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

the apartment is an oasis - of civility, kindness, and elegance.

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead,

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Return, O Power of the Pentecost, return to Thy people! Shed down Thy flame on many heads! To us, as to our fathers and to those of the old time before them, give fullness of grace! Without Thee we can do nothing; but filled with the Holy Ghost, the excellency of the power will be of Thee, O God! and not of us.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

Lo, thou, my Love, art fair; Myself have made thee so; Yea, thou art fair indeed, Wherefore thou shalt not need In beauty to despair; For I accept thee so, For fair. [excerpt from "Christ to His Spouse"]

Lo, thou, my Love, art fair; Myself have made thee so; Yea, thou art fair indeed, Wherefore thou shalt not need In beauty to despair; For I accept thee so, For fair.

For Paul, the centre of the Christian faith was that we can never earn or deserve the favour of God, nor do we need to. The whole matter is one of grace, and all that we can do is to accept in wondering love and gratitude and trust what God has done for us.

He will be the cause whereby many will rise. Long ago Seneca said that what people needed above all was a hand let down to lift them up. It is the hand of Jesus which lifts us out of the old life and into the new, out of the sin into the goodness, out of the shame into the glory.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

A man that's neither born to wealth, nor place, But to the mere despite of Fortune's brow, Though, peradventure, well endowed with grace Of stature, form, and other gifts enough, Submits himself unto a servile yoke, And is content to wear a livery cloak.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Mercy is the best attribute of humanity. The is nothing wrong with it. - Dr. Danie Estevez

And throughout all eternityI forgive you, you forgive me.

I ask'd a thief to steal me a peach:He turned up his eyes.I ask'd a lithe lady to lie her down:Holy and meek, she cries.As soon as I wentAn angel came.He wink'd at the thiefAnd smil'd at the dame—And without one word saidHad a peach from the tree,And still as a maidEnjoy'd the lady.