Grace Quotes - Page 42

To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Life is not measured in time, but in love, contribution, and grace.

God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and grace.

Knowing we’re saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person.

We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own

I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.

You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.

Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.