Grace Quotes - Page 55

To women silence gives their proper grace.

When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon and justification. Christ has done much more for us. He died for us, but he also lived for us. Now he has sent his own Spirit to us so that we might draw on his strength. He grew in grace, and when we draw on his power we shall likewise grow in grace.

Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.

Stewardship isn't a subcategory of the Christian life. Stewardship is the Christian life. After all, what is stewardship except that God has entrusted to us life, time, talents, money, possessions, family, and his grace? In each case, he evaluates how we regard what he has entrusted to us and what we do with it.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

Whatever you are doing, if there is contentment and a feeling that this whole existence is nothing but the manifestation of godliness, that we are traveling on holy earth, that whomever you are meeting, you are meeting God - there is no other way; only faces are different, but the inner reality is the same - all your tensions will disappear. And the energy that is involved in tensions will start becoming your grace, your beauty.

Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.

Even with the trials of life, because of the Savior's Atonement and his grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace.

Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.

I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk in the presence of the Lord, with the Cross of the Lord: to build the Church on the Blood of the Lord, which is shed on the Cross, and to profess the one glory, Christ Crucified. In this way, the Church will go forward.

Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully.

The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.