Quotes About Grace

What motivated me [to write] was that my disgrace was not the end of the story—or even the main part of the story. The real story was that Christ had reached down to me, even in my disgrace and shame, and revealed Himself as the One who forgives and makes new. Born Again is the story of a broken man transformed by the love and power of Jesus Christ—who continues to transform me every passing day.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild,Look upon a little child;Pity my simplicity,Suffer me to come to thee.

Jesus, lover of my soul,Let me to Thy bosom fly,While the waters nearer roll,While the tempest still is high;Hide me, O my Savior, hide,Till the storm of life is past;Safe into the haven glide,O receive my soul at last.

I charge you, on your duty to God and to your father, that you keep up no feud, no hatred, but rather that you should deem me best revenged, when you have with heart and hand, given the fullest proof of forgiveness to your enemy.

And there was you - your fair self, always delicately dressed, with white firm fingers sure of touch in delicate true work. I loved you then.

...Thus in each flower and simple bell, That in our path untrodden lie, Are sweet remembrancers who tell How fast the winged moments fly. Time will steal on with ceaseless pace, Yet lose we not the fleeting hours, Who still their fairy footsteps trace, As light they dance among the flowers.

Gretchen Lowell was beautiful in a very grown-up way, in a sophisticated, confident way. It was more than beauty; it was the power of beauty. She radiated it.

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

Even the most blatant assholes seemed to function in a state of grace when confronted with the brutal loss of a loved one. They moved through the world differently than other people. When they looked at you, you had the feeling that they were really seeing you. Their entire universe was just this one thing, this one event, this one loss. They seemed, for a few weeks, to have things in perspective. Then the inconsequential shit of their lives would start to seep back in.

Something about the way she moved through the world did not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

GOD, help me to forgive others in light of the unconditional love I have found in you. Help me to see past my anger and to resolve disagreements with wisdom and grace. Help me to measure my words and actions before I speak or act. When others wrong me, may I remember all the times you reached down and covered my wrongs with your mercy, and may I be filled with your love for them.

He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. . . . He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing. —ROBERT FARRAR CAPON (1925–), American priest and author

He will provide, protect, and shower grace in abundance as we give our burdens, the heaviness of our jobs or family situations, to the one who is eternally faithful and true. When we do, the Spirit will show us what is our part, what is God's part, and what is others' part so we don't try to do everything. As we give the Lord our deepest burdens, we will know him more deeply and grow in thankfulness. Then we will find rest for our souls.

God proved his love on the cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you.

TO PRAY IS TO LET JESUS INTO OUR LIVES. HE KNOCKS AND SEEKS ADMITTANCE, NOT ONLY IN THE SOLEMN HOURS OF SECRET PRAYER; HE KNOCKS IN THE MIDST OF YOUR DAILY WORK, YOUR DAILY STRUGGLES, YOUR DAILY "GRIND." THAT IS WHERE YOU NEED HIM THE MOST. Ole Hallesby (1879-1961)

She wielded it easily, lightly. She carried it swinging like a baseball bat, only with more poetry to it. It was a frightening thing to watch, this small shadow of billowing grey fabric and sprawling, wild hair splaying out behind her, the axe held at the ready with both hands, poised and prepared.

He smiled at May and tilted his head ever so slightly, and he said the only thing she wanted to hear in the whole world: "The princess has asked to see you.

Life's too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what's right. Right by your own heart.…Forgiveness sets you free.

Perhaps opening his heart to the Lord could be the first step in opening his life to a chance at happiness again.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn't cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

To be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

I think we underestimate the universe's desire to be kind to us.

If I believed in God, I'd see evidence of his existence in that. In your darkest hour you were held afloat by the human love that was given to you when you most needed it. That would have been true regardless of the outcome of Emma's surgery. It would have been the grace that carried you through even if things had not gone as well as they did, much as we hate to ponder that.