Top 1200 Grace Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.

We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are so weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty.

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

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.

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

"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

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

The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives.

God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

If I’m not showing grace . . . have I forgotten the grace I’ve been shown?

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.

It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

In the many trials of life, when we feel abandoned and when sorrow, sin, disappointment, failure, and weakness make us less than we should ever be, there can come the healing salve of the unreserved love in the grace of God. It is a love that lifts and blesses. It is a love that sustains a new beginning on a higher level and thereby continues "from grace to grace."

Most people have settled for a wimpy grace. It's something that doesn't change their lives. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

You okay? (Grace) Oh, yeah. I’m just fine considering the fact I’ve walked through burning fires that hurt less than my groin does right now. (Julian) I said I was sorry. Okay, can you reach the pedals? (Grace) I’d like to reach your pedals…(Julian) Julian! Would you concentrate? (Grace) All right. I’m concentrating. (Julian) I don’t mean on my breasts. (He dropped his hungry gaze to her lap.) Or there, either. (Grace)

Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

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

There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace.

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you.

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

Because I have no boobs. My ears stand out, and I have freckles all over me. (Grace) Boobs? (Julian) Breasts. (Grace) You have very nice breasts. (Julian) Thanks. What about you? (Grace) I have no breasts. (Julian)

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.

Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.

To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call.

I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace.

The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

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.

If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

If grace isn't shocking and countercultural and scandalous and a little ridiculous, then it's not Grace.

The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.

She may be called 'Grace the Face' for her physical beauty, but Grace Meigher is as beautiful on the inside as the outside.

We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Throughout our lives, God's grace bestows temporal blessings and spiritual gifts that magnify our abilities and enrich our lives. His grace refines us. His grace helps us become our best selves.

Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do.

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough...

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.