Grace Quotes:

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

topic: Thinking, Grace, Special

Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.

- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

topic: Spiritual, Opportunity, Grace, Spiritual Masters, Creepers

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

- A. Whitney Brown

source: "The Big Picture: An American Commentary". Book by A. Whitney Brown, 1991.

topic: Laughing, Grace, Saving, Saving Grace

I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

- Aaron Tippin

source: Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly

topic: Stars, Eagles, Grace

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

- Abbe Pierre

topic: Grace, Illness, States

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

- Aberjhani

source: Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.63, Lulu.com

topic: Angel, Grace, Sorrow, Unique Valentines Day

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

- Aberjhani

topic: Silence, Grace, Mercy, Woundedness

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Self, Grace, Unbroken

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

- Adam Clarke

source: Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.201

topic: Grace, Sin, Grace Of God

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

- Adam Weishaupt

topic: Stars, Grace, Torches

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

- Adam Young

topic: Jesus, Grace, Imperfect, Grace And Mercy

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

- Adoniram Judson Gordon

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 194), 1895.

topic: Skeletons, Grace, Doctrine, Holy Life

Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

- Adrian Rogers

topic: Acceptance, Grace, Accepting

Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.

- Adyashanti

source: Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.10, Sounds True

topic: Thinking, Grace, May

Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.

- Adyashanti

topic: Reality, Grace, Challenges, Dealing With It, Resisting

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Believe, Men, Grace

The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Happiness, Joy, Grace, Saving Grace

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Grace, Needs, Thirsty, I Pray, New Work

With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!

- Aimee Semple McPherson

topic: Optimistic, People, Grace

Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

topic: Grace, India, Cinema

My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

- Al-Shafi‘i

topic: Inspiration, Grace, Islam

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

- Alan K. Simpson

topic: Education, Healing, Grace, Good Education

The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

- Alan Redpath

source: Alan Redpath (2004). “The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David”, p.6, Baker Books

topic: Hero, Order, Grace

The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to ***** or mask the process of dilution.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Names, Grace, Development

Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Wings, Grace, Folding

The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Meditation, Grace, Soul, Aperture

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.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Self, Grace, Helping, Self Will

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Grace, Doing Your Best, Ready

Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he is not to worry himself into premature senility.

- Alex Dow

topic: Time, Worry, Grace, Premature, Senility

This is how I define grace: youre on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. Thats where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know Im prepared.

- Alex Rodriguez

topic: Knowing, Grace, Looks

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Art, Jewels, Grace

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Grace, Soldier, Triumph

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Character, Men, Grace

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Grace, Argument, Instruction

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Life, Grace, Zeal

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Mean, Grace, Wealth

Grace, then, is grace,--that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting.

- Alexander Whyte

source: Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”

topic: Grace, Sovereign, Unconditional

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

- Alexander Whyte

source: Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”

topic: One Direction, Grace, Flow

And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.

- Alexander Whyte

source: Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”

topic: Essence, Grace, And Love, Grace And Love

Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I dont know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what shes wearing.

- Alexandra Daddario

topic: Perfect, Grace, Looks

He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.

- Alexandra Potter

source: Alexandra Potter (2005). “Do You Come Here Often?”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

topic: Grace, Firsts, Lost

The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!

- Alice Cary

source: Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.168

topic: Grace, Calling, Path

An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one of the better reasons is the impending arrival of a little stranger. ... any lady in this interesting condition should have the grace to refuse. We know that symbols of fertility are appropriate to the marriage ceremony, but they needn't be quite so obviously borne in on the congregation ...

- Alice-Leone Moats

topic: Ideas, Interesting, Grace, Marriage Ceremony, Bridesmaids

Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy.

- Alistair Begg

topic: Memories, Kindness, Grace

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

- Alistair Begg

topic: Grace, Needs, Acknowledge

Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.

- Alister E. McGrath

topic: Grace, May, Able, God Loves Us, God Is Able

Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.

- Allan H. Meltzer

source: "Economist Milton Friedman Dies". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 16, 2006.

topic: Believe, People, Grace, Milton

Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love; He ardently desires to unite Himself with it. That is what Holy Communion does

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Jesus, Grace, Soul, Immense Love, Holy Communion

Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Grace, Saint, Sin, Teresa, Mortal Sin

A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Grace, Baptism, May, Baptized

When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.

- Aly Michalka

source: "Meet 'Hellcats' Stars Ashley Tisdale & Aly Michalka". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.

topic: Girl, Thinking, Grace, Audrey, Old Hollywood

I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.

- Amanda Smith

source: Amanda Smith (2014). “The Colored Evangelist - The Story Of The Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith”, p.120, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Thinking, People, Grace

You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Advice, Grace

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.

- Amy Vanderbilt

source: Amy Vanderbilt, Letitia Baldrige (1978). “The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living”, Doubleday Books

topic: Grace, Genius, Fool, Social Graces

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

- Andre Agassi

topic: Grace, Being The Best, Granted

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

- Andre Gide

topic: Grace, Able

... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.

- Andrea Mitchell

source: Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.120, Penguin

topic: People, Grace, News, Cable News, Unforgiving

Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless.

- Andrew Wommack

source: FaceBook post by Andrew Wommack Ministries from Jul 17, 2012

topic: Grace, Powerless

Mercy is not giving someone what they deserve. Grace is giving someone what they don't deserve. Extend God's wisdom in your relationships.

- Andrew Wommack

source: FaceBook post by Andrew Wommack Ministries from Mar 29, 2012

topic: Jesus, Giving, Grace

Grace doesn't cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.

- Andrew Wommack

topic: People, Grace, Guilt, Condemnation

I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.

- Andy Griffith

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Grace

I'm just a product of grace that's still in the process; And I don't got to be great because my God is.

- Andy Mineo

topic: Grace, Process, Stills

Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous

- Andy Stanley

topic: Self, Grace, Threatening, Self Righteous

Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.

- Andy Stanley

topic: People, Grace, Goodness, Goodness Of God, Reserved

What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.

- Ann Beattie

source: Ann Beattie (2011). “Burning House”, p.23, Vintage

topic: Grace, Aim

Let the power come. Let ecstasy erupt. Allow your heart to expand and overflow with adoration for this magnificent creation and for the love, wisdom and power that birthed it all. Rapture is needed now - rapture, reverence and grace.

- Ann Mortifee

topic: Heart, Grace, Creation, Love Wisdom

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

- Ann Voskamp

source: FaceBook post by Ann Voskamp from Jul 21, 2012

topic: Wind, Grace, Found

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.

- Ann Voskamp

topic: Acceptance, Giving, Grace, Free Gifts

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...

- Ann Voskamp

topic: Inspirational, Grace, Holiness

The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.

- Ann Voskamp

topic: Moving, Miracle, Grace, Unending, Love Dare

Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?

- Anna Cora Mowatt

topic: Play, Grace, Watches

It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world.  To reach out is to risk.  There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self

- Anne Bogart

topic: Self, Grace, Risk

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

- Anne Bradstreet

topic: Men, Iron, Grace, Furnaces

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.

- Anne Hutchinson

topic: Grace, May, Covenant

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Wind, Grace, Want, Poignancy

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Laughter, Humor, Grace

Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Mean, Grace, Different, Different Universes

Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Grateful, Light, Grace

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Wings, Water, Grace

But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

- Anne Michaels

source: Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.175, Emblem Editions

topic: Grace, Darkness, Dresses, Stop Time

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

- Anne Truitt

source: Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love Is, Discovery, Grace, Mutual Understanding, Autonomy

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Time, Men, Grace

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Writing, Grace, Looks

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

- Annie Dillard

source: Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.105, Canongate Books

topic: Thinking, Grace, Trying

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

- Anselm of Canterbury

topic: Grace, Free Will, Canterbury

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.

- Anthony of Padua

topic: Prayer, Character, Grace

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Flower, Grace, One Day

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Grace, Action, Persons

I have the grace of providence to be poor.

- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

source: "Salazar and his time" by César de Oliveira, The Official Publisher, (p. 98), 1991.

topic: Grace, Poor, Providence

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

- Anya Seton

topic: Men, Grace, Firsts, True Meaning

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

- Archibald Alexander

source: Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

topic: Greatness, Grace, Sin

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Gratitude, Grace, Gateways

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

- Arianna Huffington

source: Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.111, Harmony

topic: Struggle, Moving, Grace

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

- Aristophanes

topic: Adversity, Grace, Trying

Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

- Arthur Eddington

topic: Grace, Events

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

- Arthur Helps

topic: Beauty, Humility, Grace, Countenance, Severe

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.

- Arthur Hugh Clough

source: 'The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich' (1848) pt. 4, l. 159

topic: Grace, Given

Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God's mercies.

- Arthur W. Pink

topic: Grace, Heartfelt, Realization

Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.

- Arthur W. Pink

source: Arthur W. Pink (2006). “The Attributes of God”, p.85, Baker Books

topic: Grace, Creatures

Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

- Arturo Pérez-Reverte

source: Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1999). “The Fencing Master”, Harcourt

topic: Loneliness, Grace, Fascination

As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Grace, Quality, Nails

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.

- ASAP Ferg

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Fashion, Art, Grace, Fashion And Art, Graphic Designer

Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

- Augustus Toplady

topic: Grace, Debtors, Beggar

Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens.

- Augustus Toplady

source: Girolamo Zanchi, Augustus Toplady, Justus Lipsius (1811). “The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted:”, p.181

topic: Heaven, Grace, Gracious

Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure'- grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

source: "Freedom from Fear". Aung San Suu Kyi's Acceptance Speech for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 1, 1990.

topic: Courage, Grace, May, Grace Under Pressure

I wanna be the smile you put on your face. I wanna be your hands when you say your grace. I wanna be whatever is your favorite place, oh I just wanna be close

- Avant

source: Song: Wanna Be Close, Album: Private Room, 2003

topic: Song, Hands, Grace, Your Favorite

Her feelings she hides Her dreams she can't find She's losing her mind She's falling behind She can't find her place She's losing her faith She's falling from grace She's all over the place

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Dream, Fall, Grace, Losing Her, Falling Behind

Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.

- B. B. Warfield

topic: Grace, Favors, Sovereign, Deserving

Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

topic: Golf, Games, Grace, Coordination

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.

- Baldassare Castiglione

topic: Effort, Grace, Obvious, Antithesis

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

- Barack Obama

topic: People, Grace, Helping

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

- Barack Obama

topic: Buddhist, Atheist, Grace, Christianity And Islam

If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.

- Barbara De Angelis

topic: Love Is, Miracle, Grace, Boring Life

Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.

- Barnabas

topic: Grace, No Hope, Shortage

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

- Barry McGuire

source: Song: Eve Of Destruction

topic: Hate, Doors, Grace, Next Door Neighbors

Your highest female grace is silence.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Silence, Grace, Female

Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman's ability to make everyone...feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness.....

- Benazir Bhutto

topic: Nice, Home, Grace, Courtesy Manners

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

- Benedict of Nursia

topic: Prayer, Inspiration, Grace, Divine Grace

Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.

- Benjamin Jowett

topic: Real, Grace, Energy

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

- Benjamin Whichcote

topic: Men, Law, Grace

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

- Benjamin Whichcote

topic: Grace, Sin, States, Incompatibility

Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.

- Bernard of Clairvaux

topic: Wind, Soul, Grace, Ingratitude

It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

- Bernard of Clairvaux

topic: Choices, Grace, Doe, One Half, Qualifications

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

- Bernard Pivot

topic: Country, Grace, Culture, Social Graces, Speaks French

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

- Bethann Hardison

topic: Integrity, Inspiration, Grace

It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Grace, Challenges, And Love, Obstacle In Life

Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.

- Bill Courtney

topic: Grace

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Beauty, Grace, Bait

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

- Bill W.

topic: Ambition, Profound, Grace, Desire To Live

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

- Bill W.

topic: Spiritual, Grace, Suffering, Spiritual Progress, Success Stories

The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.

- Billy Graham

topic: Godly, Christian Inspirational, Grace

God doesn't owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.

- Billy Graham

topic: God, Giving, Grace

We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.

- Billy Graham

topic: Giving, Grace, Needs, Situations In Life

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

- Billy Graham

topic: Feet, Grace, Bows, Contrition

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

- Billy Sunday

topic: Law, Grace, Lawyer, Amazing Grace

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.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Religious, Men, Grace

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Nature, Miracle, Grace

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Believe, Giving, Grace, Divine Grace, Cursed

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

- Bo Lozoff

topic: Light, Grace, Degrees, Stumbling

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Education, Grace, Way, Amazing Grace, Swiss

Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.

- Bob Goff

topic: Circles, Grace, Draws

Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!

- Bob Goff

topic: Mean, Grace, Chalk

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

- Bob Goff

topic: Grace, Shallow, Ends

Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.

- Bob Goff

topic: Grace, Pavement, Potholes

We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.

- Bob Goff

topic: Grace, Acres, Plant

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

- Bob Goff

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Grace

Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.

- Bob Goff

topic: Grace, Courageous, Resolve

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

- Bob Goff

topic: Grace, Shapes, Size

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

- Brander Matthews

topic: Grace, Firsts, Charm

Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.

- Bree Despain

source: Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.30, Egmont UK

topic: People, Grace, Desperate

Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to a right relationship with God through the life, death, and resurrection of his beloved Son. This is the Good News, the gospel of Grace

- Brennan Manning

topic: Son, Grace, Merit, Reformation, Ragamuffin Gospel

Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Father, Men, Grace, Moody, False Gods

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!

- Brennan Manning

topic: Doors, Grace, News

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

- Brennan Manning

source: Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.55, Multnomah

topic: Broken, Grace, Needs

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Sick, Grace, And Love, Live And Love, Loving Me

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Real, War, Grace, Disease And Death

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Philosophy, Hands, Grace, Moral Code, Philosophy Love

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Grace, Guilt, Trying, Pettiness, Brownies

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Real, Past, Grace, Ragamuffin Gospel, Sins Of The Past

The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable.

- Brian D. McLaren

topic: Ideas, Grace, Church

The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace

- Brian Houston

source: Brian Houston (2015). “Live, Love, Lead”, p.50, Hachette UK

topic: Grace, Church

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

- Bridget of Sweden

source: Saint Bridget (of Sweden), Marguerite Tjader Harris, Albert Ryle Kezel (1990). “Life and Selected Revelations”, p.136, Paulist Press

topic: Fear, Grace, Judged, Negligence

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

- Bridget of Sweden

topic: Grace, Asking, Enmity

O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i beseech thee to grant me the grace to continue in thy presence; and to this end do thou prosper me with thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections." (Bro. Lawrence implored His grace and offered to Him all his actions).

- Brother Lawrence

topic: Art, Grace, Mind, Bros

The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

- Brother Lawrence

topic: Perfection, Grace, Soul, Divine Grace

My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to remain with You, in Your presence. Work with me, so that my work might be the very best. Receive as an offering of love both my work and all my affections.

- Brother Lawrence

source: Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

topic: Offering, Grace, Might

We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

- Brother Lawrence

source: Brother Lawrence (2006). “The Practice of the Presence of God, and the Spiritual Maxims”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Kings, Cake, Grace

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Failure, Grace, Style, Still Life With Woodpecker

Grace is not something for which I must look in my heart. It is in the heart of God.

- C. F. W. Walther

topic: Heart, Grace, Looks

Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.

- C. I. Scofield

topic: Men, Justice, Grace, Approving

As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation. . . .

- C. I. Scofield

source: C. I. Scofield (1998). “The Old ScofieldRG Study Bible, KJV, Standard Edition”, p.1115, Oxford University Press

topic: Acceptance, Rejection, Grace

Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.

- C. J. Mahaney

source: C.J. Mahaney (2011). “Christ Our Mediator: Finding Passion at the Cross”, p.67, Multnomah

topic: Grace, Sin, Cherish

The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.

- C. J. Mahaney

topic: Biblical, Grace, Purpose

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done FOR us, leading us to faith and worship, we have to see it as something done BY us, leading us to repentance. Only the man or woman who is prepared to own his share in the guilt of the cross may claim his share in its grace.

- C. J. Mahaney

source: John Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (2009). “The Cross”, p.15, InterVarsity Press

topic: Men, Grace, Guilt

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Time, Grace, Done

Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Intelligent, Laughing, Grace, Reepicheep, Turnips

The evangelical task primarily is the preaching of the Gospel, in the interest of individual regeneration by the supernatural grace of God, in such a way that divine redemption can be recognized as the best solution of our problems, individual and social

- Carl F. H. Henry

topic: Grace, Tasks, Redemption

God enters through the wound.

- Carl Jung

topic: Grace, Wounds

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

- Carlos Santana

topic: Grace, Way, Conviction

Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better

- Caroline Myss

topic: Positivity, Grace, Moments

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

- Carolyn Wells

topic: Christian, Grace, Biographies, Adulation, Grace Christian

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

- Caryll Houselander

source: Caryll Houselander (1945). “The Flowering Tree”

topic: Grace, Desire, Complacency

She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man

- Catherine Doherty

topic: Men, Grace, Glory, Chalice

The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Country, Grace, Wicked

...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Grace, May, Madness

Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.

- Cathleen Falsani

source: Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.21, Harper Collins

topic: Laughter, Grace, Form

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.

- Cathleen Falsani

source: Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.15, Harper Collins

topic: Grace, Way, Sneaking Up

Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.

- Cathleen Falsani

source: Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.81, Harper Collins

topic: People, Grace, Bigger

Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

- Cathleen Falsani

source: Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.10, Harper Collins

topic: Color, Wind, Grace, Cardboard Boxes

Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve. ...... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift

- Cathleen Falsani

source: Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.14, Harper Collins

topic: Compassion, Justice, Grace

Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace.

- Cathleen Falsani

source: Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.40, Harper Collins

topic: People, Grace, Might

You can call it what you like, categorize it, vivisect it, qualify, quantify, or dismiss it, and none of it will make grace anything other than precisely what grace is: audacious, unwarranted, and unlimited.

- Cathleen Falsani

topic: Grace, Unlimited, Audacious

Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me.

- Charitie Lees Smith

topic: Grace, Soul, Looks, Pardon Me

Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.

- Charlene Spretnak

topic: Grace, Depth, Sacred

To receive the grace of God you must go to the desert and stay awhile.

- Charles de Foucauld

topic: Grace, Desert, Grace Of God

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

- Charles Dudley Warner

topic: Beauty, Accomplishment, Grace

Grace woke you up this morning, grace started you on your way and grace enabled you to survive until this very moment.

- Charles E. Blake

topic: Spiritual, Morning, Grace, Spiritual Awakening, Morning Inspirational

A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.

- Charles Grandison Finney

topic: Heart, Grace, Thank You God, Gratitude To God, Thankful Heart

The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.

- Charles Hodge

topic: Men, Grace, Grace Of God

The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.

- Charles Hodge

topic: Humble, Men, Grace, Humble Man