Quotes About Grace

Where there's surrender, synchronicity tends to follow, which is one of the most delightful side effects of a surrender practice.

It was stupid, she now understood, to think that privilege translated to protection. To mistake privilege for grace.

forgiveness is a choice. It doesn't arrive on fairy wings; it doesn't descend from the sky for you to take or leave. Forgiveness is an action." Flora

This woman…determination burned in her eyes. Fury hardened her muscles. She was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen.

I may be heaven-sent, but I'm not perfect.

I may be heaven-sent, bit I'm not perfect

Just this once, let it be easy.

It is a grace that comes, unexpected, after tragedy- this reminder that most hearts are good.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Early laurels weigh like lead and of many of the boys whom I knew at Eton, I can say that their lives are over .... Once again romanticism with its death wish is to blame, for it lays an emphasis on childhood, on a fall from grace which is not compensated for by any doctrine of future redemption.

Such, social historians of the future please note, were the housing conditions of Markshire in the year of grace 1952.

If you look close enough, you can see cracks in everything. And that's okay. Because when you really think about it, it's the cracks and gaps and chinks in things that let the light shine in.

There were pretty carpets, good china, and an abundance of excellent food; there were magazines and papers and books lying about, and boxes of cigarettes for anyone who wanted them … there was all this, but above all there was peace. Peace, thought Franz, peace and happiness—yes, that was really the keynote of Fernacres.

It's turned out all right after all," she said contentedly. "Things usually do, somehow. You worry and fuss and try to make things go the way you think they should, and then you find that the other way was best. I'm going to try not to worry about things anymore.

He will be no trouble in the house," declared Mr. Grace with his usual optimism. "How do you know?" inquired Liz. "I mean if you scarcely know the man, you can't possibly know his habits.

We impress Grace with the necessity of taking her umbrella (although the sky is cloudless), and join the throng of fashionably attired churchgoers, all of whom seem to be making their way to the Parish Church. I reflect that neither of my companions is attending church with orthodox motives, but perhaps it is better to attend with unorthodox motives than not at all.

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

At a very early age and continuing throughout my life, I have marveled at the beautiful story of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

I never folded, I didn't have to hate on anybody, I didn't have to cross anybody or fall out with anyone because I'm not on that vibe. My frequency is on a whole other level.

We can still be sexy and vibrant, fashionable, classy, and fly until the day we die!

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.