Quotes About Grace

Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.

She) threw Stephen a quick, apologetic glance and ran into the house. She might be in a strange hurry of spirits, but she moved with the perfect, unconscious grace that had always touched him, and he felt a wave of tenderness, allied to his former passionate love; perhaps its ghost.

She then recovered her wits and averting her eyes from the wreck of her house she shook Babbington's hand, embraced Stephen tenderly, greeted all the officers, young gentlemen and seamen she knew, and said she would not get in their way - would go and sort her baggage and draw breath in one of the loose-boxes: there was nothing she preferred to a really commodious loose-box.

He found Jack well into his dinner and sat down beside him. 'Will I confess a grave sin? he asked. 'Do, by all means,' said Jack, looking at him kindly. 'But if you managed to commit a grave sin between the gunroom and here you have a wonderful capacity for evil.

There is something wonderfully comfortable about having a lady's legs under one's table, Aubrey.

But without sin there can be no forgiveness.

There she lays,' he cried. 'Oh there she lays! Ain't she the loveliest thing you ever saw?' 'She is, too,' said Stephen, for even to his profound ignorance she stood out among the common workaday vessels like a thoroughbred in a troop of cart-horses.

none of the peevishness and ill-nature so usual in the elderly.

When you win, say nothing, when you lose say less.

Jesus completed our salvation by taking-on the sins of the entire world through the baptism He received from John the Baptist, and dying on the Cross, after atoned for all these sins.

of mankind through His Son before the creation. And

Testimonies of the Apostles about the Baptism of Jesus Who Had Taken on the Sins of Mankind

Likewise, Jesus Christ the Son of God came to this earth and opened the age of the New Testament, by shouldering the sins of the world without a single trace of sin left behind, in order to atone for all the sins of all of humankind.

God did not come to do away with suffering; he did not even come to explain it. He came to fill it with his presence.

Passing on the good news of Jesus is not equivalent to saying "I'm better than you." Rather, as the famous saying goes, it's like one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.

God doesn't expect perfection—he wants good women who are motivated by deep love for him and who aren't afraid to make a few mistakes along the way.

It takes a while to become one of God's Good Women, and in the process you learn that you can't avoid every mistake or please everyone. There simply isn't time to be that uptight and rigid. God designed limits to your time, treasure, and talents so you wouldn't squander your life away. Recognizing your limited time here on earth can motivate you to say, "Good-bye, perfectionism, I don't have time for you!

The God who loved us enough to die for us when we cared nothing for him is not about to shortchange us in life.

And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough.

discernment asks that we constantly be open, both to God's gentle nudges and to the many opportunities for grace that are constantly being presented.

Whether we are orderlies or orchestra conductors, either we befriend our work-- seeing in it the opportunity for moral excellence and a continual outpouring of heavenly grace-- or we become its victim.

She received it as a god is received

God always offers us a second chance in life.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.