Grace Quotes - Page 49

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque forms and events -- in terms of the import to thought and their impetus to the spirit. In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence; I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery, newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy.

The grace of God reaches to the furthest extent to those who are prepared to acknowledge their need.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and belief of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later.

Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.

God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit its grace by the length of the work, their patience, and their prayers. This is why I beg you not to grow weary in yours. Although He may delay, He will reveal that it is pleasing to Him, if it is done, nevertheless, in a spirit of resignation regarding the outcome.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.

People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.

The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Verily the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.

Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek our fans' favor, grace them with our smiles, or catch their kisses. We are unforgiving. And I love it. Getting to be myself at last.

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!

If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.