Quotes About Grace

grace means there is nothing I can do to make God love me more, and nothing I can do to make God love me less.

That stance of openness to receive is what I call the "catch" to grace. It must be received, and the Christian term for that act is repentance, the doorway to grace.

The Bible's many fierce passages on sin appear in a new light once I understand God's desire to press me toward repentance, the doorway to grace.

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

Simplicity. Ah, that I can offer in abundance.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

She has a smile that grows slowly and then shines, like an angel's smile.

There was no question now who sat at the right hand of the King. It was the Queen, who walked through the great hall wearing deepest crimson and gold with her head high and a little smile on her lips. She did not flaunt her return to favour. She took it as she had taken her eclipse: as the nature of royal marriage. Now that her star was risen again she walked as proudly as she had ever done when in shadow.

People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown. We have to carry it as lightly as we can.

Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.

This is God's victory: not mine.

pure beauty, shining among the other girls

saddle, brushes down my gown, hands me my hat

You can always tell a pretty girl by the way she walks. A pretty girl walks like she owns the world.

No, you look like the beauty you are, and you know it. You have that gift, which our mother had, of growing older and becoming more lovely. Your features have changed from being merely those of a pretty girl to being those of a beautiful woman with a face like a carving. When you are laughing and dancing with Edward, you could pass for twenty, but when you are still and thoughtful, you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy. No wonder women loathe you.

She did not look like my sister, she did not look like any mortal woman at all. She carried herself as if she were the greatest queen that had ever been born. We

For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within?

Her body in firelight and candlelight was as beautiful as a wild animal.

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

Like a dying star, grace dissipates in a final burst of pale light, and is then engulfed by the black hole of ungrace.

Don't know if a dog - or a man, either - ever gets to the place where he can forget as well as forgive, but enough miracles have come my way lately to make me think that this could happen, too.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity