Quotes About Grace

God is the one who decides whether a person will have faith in Christ, since faith is a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8). A person who is spiritually dead cannot produce or exercise faith – God must first regenerate him.

Arminianism says that it is man who chooses whether he will accept Christ, but Jesus says, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit – fruit that will last" (John 15:16).

If anyone were to discover truth and attain salvation, it must be by God's sovereign grace and effectual calling.

Jesus said, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you" (John 15:16), but

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

God's primary concerns have to do with your well-being, not your performance.

As St. Faustina writes, "The miracles of mercy are impenetrable. Neither the sinner nor the just one will fathom them" (Diary, 1215).

Receiving Communion means entering into communion with Jesus Christ. ... What is given us here is not a piece of a body, not a thing, but him, the Resurrected one himself — the person who shares himself with us in love. ... This means that receiving Communion is always a personal act. GOD IS NEAR US, P. 81

Vinny Flynn

Her walk revealed her as a true goddess.

A god has brought us this peace.

Give me handfuls of lilies to scatter.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Vera incessu patuit dea. (The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)

Life will always flow on, it had whispered gently. You might try to stop it, but no one can alter the flow of life. You can only learn how to move with it gracefully, tumbling through the rough times, restoring yourself during the smooth times, and knowing that wherever it takes you, a mightier hand than yours is guiding you, always directing your path. Moses

Love truth, and pardon error.

How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face;" ? W. B. Yeats

All of Christ in all of you. You can never have more. You need never have less.

Christ died for us so that He, risen and alive, might now come and dwell within us, so that we might no longer be egocentric, self-oriented, living only for our own interests: "He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again" (2 Corinthians 5: 15). Never be sorry for your self. Just be sorry for your sin! All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. ROMANS 3: 23

In many ways the Reformation was born out of the sense of the hopelessness and spiritual powerlessness of sinners.

This teaching is similar to the statement of William Perkins: "The desire for grace is an evidence of grace.

Some alien blessingis on its way to us.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.