Quotes About Grace

when He sees us in Christ Jesus He

I think what it means is that central to living A life that is good is a life that's forgiving.

On Maui, one November, Hugh and I went swimming, and turned to find a gigantic sea turtle coming up between us. As gentle as a cow she was, and with a cow's dopey, almost lovesick expression on her face. That, to me, was worth the entire trip, worth my entire life, practically. For to witness majesty, to find yourself literally touched by it—isn't that what we've all been waiting for?

Courtesy seldom costs anything, and the willingness to extend it can be its own subtle declaration of strength. There

To eat and drink, and be happy in one's toil: this is the grace of God.

Grace is defined in the Webster 1828 dictionary as "the free unmerited love and favor of God.

Looking into the eyes of those in need we recognize that God's unmerited grace and mercy are the only reason we were released from spiritual prison. When we are offered the privilege of helping someone else who may not technically deserve our help, as God does to us, we are placed on holy ground.  It is holy because we are placed in the temporary position of God to determine whether we will act with grace and mercy as He has with us.

When surrounded by miracles, it is not proper to doubt the will of the Most High God.

Modesty's no credit to anyone-it's just a social grace.

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness.

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.

I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

Si la rose savait que sa grâce et sa beauté la conduisent droit dans un vase, elle serait la première à trancher la gorge avec sa propre épine.

thinking to be tactful and adroit, the woman stood

I like the idea of saying thank you on behalf of the weather.

A no ser por la mirada melancólica de sus ojos, cuando pensaba en Oki, nadie habría advertido su tristeza. Y hasta esa ocasional sombra sólo contribuía a acentuar su belleza.