Grace Quotes
Rachael Wade
Forgiveness wasn’t ever easy, but a feat much more manageable when you weren’t the subject of its grace. Maybe I’d always be a broken recipient of grace. And in that musing, I found rest.
2680 Lailah Gifty Akita
If you have the grace to hug someone, never miss this sacred moment.
1445 Jim George
Let your past failures prepare you for future victories.
4427 Paul Murray
Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.
3071 Flannery O'Connor
Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.
3133 Flannery O'Connor
We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.
1511 Chris Burkmenn
It may not of happened the way you thought it would, but in the long run it will work out as it should.
1313 Maggie Stiefvater
I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.
4777 Anna White
My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.
1844 Marilynne Robinson
There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.
2961 Marilynne Robinson
I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.
I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.
4749 Marilynne Robinson
It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.
1192 Munia Khan
The world of light and starry grace;
within your mind I live to trace.
Your thought’s speed in thunder’s glory,
lightening my being with dream’s story.
I embrace the tree carrying your name
Your unspoken wish : the heart of fame.
4276 Michael Bassey Johnson
Success is likened to a deep pit, you have to jump in to get it, then you'll need a ladder of grace to climb out to enjoy it.
4270 Jay Woodman
Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise;
Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games;
Words to dance our true soul fires gracefully free.
3733 Lailah Gifty Akita
The grace,faith,love and power of God will uplift you to greater heights.
1710 J.B. McGee
None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.
2134 Josef Pieper
The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.
2429 Timothy Keller
Properly understood, the doctrine of sin means that believers are never as good as our true worldview should make us. Similarly, the doctrine of grace means as messed up their false worldview should make them.
3334 Frederick Buechner
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
3250 Patricia Briggs
When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
4245 Wm. Paul Young
Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
1011 Aberjhani
Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.
2070 Jay Woodman
Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE.
2783 Eugenia Price
God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.
4146 John R.W. Stott
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
4464 Edmund Spenser
Aye me, how many perils do enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall?
Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold,
And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.
2197 Matthew Gregory Lewis
He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.
3217 Aberjhani
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
2441 Aberjhani
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
3259 Madeleine L'Engle
Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.
4441 Jayce O'Neal
We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.
2270 Major Thomas
His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty!
1482 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
They may throw sticks, stones, or bricks, but nothing they do will hurt you. You are protected by God. He is forever got you covered and the enemy is defeated. Their hatred towards you is a reflection of the evilness on their inside which is slowly destroying them. A person like that must deal with the matters of their heart.
3203 Maggie Stiefvater
Sam reached his hand toward mine, and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile, he pulled my hand toward his nose and took a sniff, and then another one. His smile widened, though it was still shy. It was absolutely adorable, and my breath got caught somewhere in my throat.
3267 Edmond Rostand
Cyrano: The leaves-
Roxane: What color-Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.
Cyrano: Yes-they know how to die. A little way
From the branch to the earth, a little fear
Of mingling with the common dust-and yet
They go down gracefully-a fall that seems
Like flying!
3545 Cedric Nye
When it's my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only wish will be to die with grace, covered in the blood of my enemies.
4240 Unknown Author
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
2621 John Piper
God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.
3236 Frederick Buechner
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
2203 Martin Luther
To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
4185 Eric Wilson
As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.
2403 Arthur W. Pink
Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.
1319 Marilynne Robinson
I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.
1627 Shane Claiborne
...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.
2988 Sarah Dunant
If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.
2505 J.E.B. Spredemann
Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.
1925 Judah Smith
Grace is God-given power to live differently.
3692 J.E.B. Spredemann
My grace is sufficient for thee. The words soothed her soul like a healing balm.
3354 J.E.B. Spredemann
...there is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God.
1520 Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.
3323 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Despite what you think you know, sometimes your plans may be interrupted. Because you were designed for a purpose. You are on a mission to achieve greatness. No matter what obstacles lie in your path, you will reach your destination. Remember God's grace is sufficient.
2420 J.I. Packer
Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.
3546 Lailah Gifty Akita
Two great prayers;
Yahweh, grant me grace for my daily activities.
Yahweh, protect me from all evil, so that my life will be free of pain in Jesus name. Amen!
4012 Lailah Gifty Akita
It is only by grace and hope in great God of wonders, we receive strength and vitality for everyday life.
4994 Hannah Brencher
God is a lot of things to a lot of people but I don't think He is a cheap party host with limited grace to give out.
2661 Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Grace is an empowerment to be above and beyond reproach, to live your life at a standard that pleases God.
2848 Bree Despain
What can you do how much can you give to bring grace and salvation unto even one soul
1441 Aberjhani
Just above our terror, the stars painted this story
in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often
abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
1765 Aberjhani
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
3675 Ricky Maye
Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way
2347 Aberjhani
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
2400 Patricia St. John
...stooping very low, He engraves with care
His Name, indelible, upon our dust;
And from the ashes of our self-despair,
Kindles a flame of hope and humble trust.
He seeks no second site on which to build,
But on the old foundation, stone by stone,
Cementing sad experience with grace,
Fashions a stronger temple of His own.
2336 Rick Anderson
God is writing His story on the pages of our lives.
4998 Dana Arcuri
Our job on earth isn't to criticize, reject, or judge. Our purpose is to offer a helping hand, compassion, and mercy. We are to do unto others as we hope they would do unto us.
3802 Dana Arcuri
We each have the power to give. It’s the most gratifying feeling ever. By reaching out to help another human being you're sending ripples of positive change.
4905 Benson Bruno
Courtiers never look like fools, or engage in hard work if they can’t make it look easy. Conquering the world is a sweaty business, and perspiration always betrays.
4725 Aberjhani
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
4327 Jared Brock
Rest in the knowledge that God is both abundantly gracious and ridiculously generous.
3475 C. JoyBell C.
It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.
3603 Steve McVey
The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.
4015 Lailah Gifty Akita
The more we abide in Christ, the more His grace and power transform us into His image.
1253 C. JoyBell C.
Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!
3000 C. JoyBell C.
Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.
3485 Lailah Gifty Akita
You have no control over what happens to you! You can only pray for grace and strength to endure any situation.
1707 Lailah Gifty Akita
May you always have extraordinary grace and faith to cope with the uncertainties of life.
3637 Thea Harris
God can make you whole again. Past experiences may not disappear, but they don’t have the same effect on you.
3500 Thea Harris
God loves you in spite of your mistakes
3536 Lailah Gifty Akita
Lord may your grace and power be mighty upon us to fulfill our highest calling.
1817 Aberjhani
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
2230 Traci Lea LaRussa
Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.
2177 Anne Lamott
We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.
2657 Matthew Henry
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
3282 Judah Smith
Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don't focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.
3595 Jay Bakker
Grace saved my life; it can revolutionize yours.
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