Grace Quotes - Page 23

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.

The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it were, Godlike, but regardless of the strength he derives from it, his free will remains. We are always free to disown this immense grace, to abuse it. The Greatest Love may be betrayed. Fed on the Living Bread, we nevertheless conceal a part of ourselves which longs for swine's food.

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.

Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God.

God doesn’t work on sense; He works on grace. God called you, and God called me. He knew what He was doing.

Love is the queen of all the Christain graces.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons.

To repent means to realize that the kind of life we are living is wrong and that we must adopt a completely new set of values. To that end, it involves two things. It involves sorrow for what we have been and it involves the resolve that by the grace of God we will be changed.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

When God has not taken away our trouble or temptation yet, with His grace in our lives, we are content.

This earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know: We are stunned by this beauty, and I do not forget: what she is to me, what I am to her.

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart' (Deut 6.5) that therefore you can love with all your heart? What do arguments of this kind prove, but the 'free-will' does not need the grace of God, but can do all things by its own power....But it does not follow from this that man is converted by his own power, nor do the words say so; they simply say: "if thou wilt turn,telling man what he should do. When he knows it, and sees that he cannot do it, he will ask whence he may find ability to do it..." 164

Grace isn't a license to sin; it's a license from sin.