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How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.
— Rick Bass, Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had
My last words to him were to assure him that we would bring Sally to join him later. And you know what your dad said? He said that he would wait for as long as it took."Grace bit her lip. "But she never came, did she? And he never stopped waiting.
— Justin Somper, Black Heart
I gave her a look. “Rachel.”“Grace, you have to admit this is pretty weird. Say it. You disappearing from the hospital and Olivia is — and Sam suddenly shows up with you and, well, the freaky hallucinogenic mushrooms are looking more and more realistic, especially when you start talking about wolves. Because next step is for Isabel Culpeper to show up saying that everybody’s going to be abducted by aliens and I have to tell you,I can’t take that in my fragile emotional state. I think that —”I sighed. “Rachel.”“Fine,” she said. She threw her bag in the backseat and climbed in after.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
Pure, unadulterated, consistent love for God and pure, unadulterated, consistent love for others is the summation of all the law God has given us in both the Old and New Testaments. Of course, the problem is that we never obey these simple commands. We always love ourselves more than we love God or others. We are always erecting idols in our hearts and worshipping and serving them. We are always more focused on what we want and how we might get it than we are on loving Him and laying down our life for others. The law does show us the right way to live, but none of us obeys it. Not for one millisecond.Even though our children cannot and will not obey God's law, we need to teach it to them again and again. And when they tell us that they can't love God or others in this way, we are not to argue with them. We are to agree with them and tell them of their need for a Savior.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.
— Mark Vonnegut, The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
Grace is not just enough, it is more than enough. 2 Peter 1:2
— John Paul Warren
You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physics; in physical laws every action is met by an equal or an opposite one. It's clear to me that Karma is at the very heart of the universe. I'm absolutely sure of it. And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that "as you reap, so you will sow" stuff. Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff. But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I'd be in deep s---. It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity
— Bono
When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude. Sovereignty is only tyrannical if it is unbounded by goodness; holiness is only terrifying if it is untempered by grace; omniscience is only taunting if it is unaccompanied by mercy; and immutability is only torturous if there is no guarantee of goodwill.
— Ravi Zacharias
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
— Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections
You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don't grab the bone from him and tell him it's not good for him. He'll growl at you. It's the only thing he has. But you throw a big fat lamb chop in front of him, and he's going to drop that bone and pick up the lamb chop, his tail wagging to beat the band. And you've got a friend. Instead of going around grabbing bones from people... I'm going to throw them some lamb chops. Something with real meat and life in it. I'm going to tell them about New Beginnings.
— David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade
Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.
— Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
If a man were to sow a field, he could not excuse his neglect by saying that it would be useless to sow unless God caused the seed to grow. He would not be justified in neglecting tillage because the secret energy of God alone can create a harvest. No one is hindered in the ordinary pursuits of life by the fact that unless the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, All of Grace
I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.
— Jud Wilhite, Stripped: Uncensored Grace on the Streets of Vegas
God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace".R. Alan Woods [2012]
— R. Alan Woods, Apologia: A Collection of Christian Essays
When you GIVE under “compulsion” or “Grudgingly” you are giving under the LAW of giving and NOT the GRACE given for giving. God loves a cheerful (thankful) giver, which is giving under GRACE. 2 Cor 9:7
— John Paul Warren
…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
When you GIVE under “compulsion” or “Grudgingly” you are giving under the LAW of giving and NOT the GRACE given for giving.
— John Paul Warren
The Holy Spirit will always point people to the finish work of Jesus
— John Paul Warren
There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus
— John Paul Warren
Jesus conformed to our image so we could be transformed into His likeness
— John Paul Warren
Grace has a face. It is Jesus Christ.
— John Paul Warren
The law says do good be right. Grace says Jesus made you right so now you are good.
— John Paul Warren
Your life is a witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.
— John Paul Warren
I sometimes wonder if God calls us into the church because it represents not the people of God at their best but us at our worst. I wonder if he calls us to become embedded in this wretched institution precisely because it is wretched. And calls us to be a part of it not to reform it or save it or control it in any way, but to simply love it.
— Mark Galli, Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit
Father son oily ghost amen.
— Ginnetta Correli
Grace is not just enough, it is more than enough.
— John Paul Warren
Some people's theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
The law provides expert diagnosis of our sin problem, which is absolutely essential. But the law does not provide the cure to our sin problem. Only Jesus can save us from our sin problem.
— John Paul Warren
The Law was never given to gentiles but to Jews only, so why do so many gentiles struggle today with mixing law and grace?
— John Paul Warren
Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to “suppress sin”.
— John Paul Warren
The LAW points you to self-efforts. GRACE points you to the finished work of Jesus Christ.
— John Paul Warren
The sin and guilt of the human race was imputed to the spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ when He became the sin offering for the world.
— John Paul Warren
Never compromise the glorious Gospel. It is the Gospel "from" Christ and not merely a Gospel "about" Christ. Gal 1:6-12
— John Paul Warren
Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.
— George Orwell, 1984
I mean, we don’t have to worry about it until winter, anyway,” she said. “I was just wondering if you felt cured.”I didn’t know what to tell her. I didn’t feel cured. I felt like what Cole said —almost cured. A war survivor with a phantom limb. I still felt that wolf that I’d been: living in my cells, sleeping uneasily, waiting to be coaxed out by weather or a rush of adrenaline or a needle in my veins. I didn’t know if that was real or suggested. I didn’t know if one day I would feel secure in my skin, taking my human body for granted.“You look cured,” Grace said. Just her face was visible at the end of the shower curtain, looking in at me. She grinned and I yelled. Grace reached in just far enough to shut off the tap.“I’m afraid,” she said, whipping the shower curtain open all the way and presenting me with my towel, “this is the sort of thing you’ll have to put up with in your old age.” I stood there, dripping, feeling utterly ridiculous, Grace standing opposite, smiling with her challenge. There was nothing for it but to get over the awkwardness. Instead of taking the towel, I took her chin with my wet fingers and kissed her. Water from my hair ran down my cheeks and onto our lips. I was getting her shirt all wet, but she didn’t seem to mind. A lifetime of this seemed rather appealing. I said gallantly, “That better be a promise.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt worked. Intellectually, he already knew that. It was his emotions that were tripping him up. The tangle of love and memory and what might have been.
— Charles de Lint, The Mystery of Grace
There but for the grace of God go I.
— John Bradford
Then this must be my answer: We know that the attributes of God are infinite and it has always seemed strange to me that men have never given Him credit for common sense. It is hard to believe that He would have created so beautiful a world if He had not decided men to enjoy it. Would He have given the stars their glory, the birds their sweet song, and the flowers, their fragrance if He had not wished us to delight in them? I shave sinned before men and men have condemned me. God made me a man with passions of a man, and did He give them to me only that I should suppress them? He gave me my adventurous spirit and my love of life. I have a humble hope that when I am face to face with my Maker He will condone my imperfections and I shall find mercy in His sight.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Catalina: A Romance
A pastor struggled for years with sexual addiction, eventually becoming so despondent that hospitalized himself. He joined an inpatient group and was mostly silent as others shared.When he decided not to come one day, the leader found he had fallen back into his addiction the previous night. Against every fiber of his instinct, he came back to the group. He shared how much he despised himself and his hypocritical behavior. When he saw that others wept for him, the weight of the secret that piled on the shame was broken. As Ortberg puts it, the man was able to taste the grace he taught about.
— John Ortberg Jr., Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.
— Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness
The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost.
— Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections
Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.
— J.M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K
Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and hope for grace.
— Jillian Lauren, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
Oh, the best dancers know/what grace/every stumble/contains.
— Em Claire, Silent, Sacred, Holy, Deepening Heart
There is in true grace an infinite circle: a man by thirsting receives, and receiving thirsts for more.
— Thomas Shepard, The Works of Thomas Shepard - Vol 2: The Parable of the Ten Virgins
Her tone changed from shocked to curious. “How was it? Was it… different?”Sarah bit her lip, ashamed to be gossiping but feeling the strong urge to tell. “Yes,”she confided. “He’s nothing like John. Nothing like him at all.”“Really? What was different? Did he…?” Grace waved a hand as though erasing achalkboard. “Oh, forget it. I shouldn’t be asking this. But,” again her voice lowered, “is he tattooed everywhere?”Sarah knew it was wrong to talk about him like this, but her inner schoolgirl took over and she nodded, eager to share details. “He’s beautiful … like a stained glass window. And he’s really good with his … mouth.” She raised an eyebrow, giving Grace a significant look.Her friend gasped and giggled. “But isn’t it weird? Touching him?”“Skin is skin, Grace,” Sarah chided. “The tattoos are only on the surface, you know.He’s a man.” A sexy, vulnerable, intense, attractive, responsible, sweet, gentle and loving man.
— Bonnie Dee, Bone Deep
When we fail, we cut the string. Then God ties it up again, making a knot and thereby bringing us a little closer to Him. Again and again our failures cut the string, and with each additional knot God keeps drawing us closer and closer.
— Sharon A. Hersh, Brave Hearts: Unlocking the Courage to Love with Abandon
There is no activity that is somehow more Christian than another. God looks at the heart, and that is the good part that Mary knew. he simply asks us to come as we are and to be willing, open to receive whatever he might have for us this day. That is what it means to live a graceful life.
— Emily P. Freeman, Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life
Jesus said when you pray say "Our Father which art in heaven." He did not say "Our Judge which art in heaven". #grace #gospel
— John Paul Warren
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— John Paul Warren
You have FALLEN from Grace when you seek to be Justification by your own self effort (the Law). Gal 5:4 AMP
— John Paul Warren
Dignity is a quiet strength which reflects your deep honor and self-respect. It is a gracious pride without narcissistic projection and portrays a calm awareness and generosity of spirit regardless of the environment or circumstances.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
It is a great mistake to give a man who has not been convicted of sin, certain passages that were never meant for him. The Law is what he needs. Do not offer the consolation of the gospel until he sees and knows he is guilty before God. We must give enough of the Law to take away all self-righteousness. I pity the man who preaches only one side of the truth, always the gospel and never the Law.
— D L Moody
Satan, the god of all dissension stirs up daily new sects. And last of all which of all others I should have foreseen or once suspected. He has raised up a sect such as teach that men should not be terrified by the Law but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.
— Martin Luther
Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the church with false converts.
— Charles Finney
Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. His hair had been brushed into a soft white cloud, like harmless aspiration, like a mist given off by the endless work of dreaming.
— Marilynne Robinson, Home
You will be stuck with you for the rest of your life so learn to be your own best friend. Take a moment, look at yourself in the mirror, and say, “I love you.” It feels awkward at first. Do it anyway. Begin a great friendship with YOU!
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Do you see dignity & grace as a state of emotional and spiritual being or a physical projection of courage and class? Perhaps they describe both.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
The radiance of dignity and grace creates a profound elegance which exists whether anyone is watching or not.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Likened to “still waters run deep,” a dignified person is able to call upon their wisdom and experience to discern a situation and expertly navigate it with grace.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Grounded by healthy self-esteem and personal self-worth, this admirable character quality can inspire awe and reverence.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Dignity is an inherent value and human virtue which represents the best of mankind.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Dignity is a gracious pride without narcissistic projection. It portrays a calm confidence and awareness regardless of the environment or circumstances.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
In spite of the circumstance, a person who abides in dignity and grace will use the lessons learned as ballast for their ship as they sail through stormy waters—taking the wisdom gained from life and using it to anchor their confidence.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Gracious pride is a powerful motivator and an exceptional quality. It drives a person to strive for excellence, keep promises, not give up, be more resilient, maintain optimism, and hold their head high while enduring challenge and change.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Gracious pride is a wonderful quality when it is used for good
—  it brings out the best in you and encourages the best in others.
Dignity is pride’s barometer.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
With awareness and practice, even the most awkward people can learn how to be both fluid and purposeful in their bearing.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
A wonderful place to start is to seek role models who exemplify this way of being and try their style on for size.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Grace is an attitude of generosity toward our fellow humans. We are not easily offended and do not look to judge and label others. With a spirit of graciousness, we are amiable, benevolent, and charitable.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Dignity impacts everything in your life. It affects the quality of your internal world for how you see, feel, and think about yourself.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Dignity impacts the quality of your external world in your relationships, communications, and interactions.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Dignity impacts how you are perceived and received when making a first impression.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Grace is the promise that your heavenly Father remembers your sins no more.
— R.J. Grunewald, The Art of Law and Gospel
But under the righteous government of God no one is wretched who does not deserve to be so. The objects of mercy, then, are those who are miserable, and all misery is the result of sin, hence the miserable are deserving of punishment not mercy. To speak of deserving mercy is a contradiction of terms.
— Arthur W. Pink, The Sovereignty of God
Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner’s salvation—but the clear practical knowledge of the fact that he cannot save himself, and is entirely dependent on the saving grace of God.
— Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience
The central thesis of Surnaturel, then, is that, neither in patristic nor in medieval theology, and certainly not in Thomas Aquinas, was the hypothesis ever entertained of a purely natural destiny for human beings, something other than the supernatural and eschatological vision of God. There is only this world, the world in which our nature has been created for a supernatural destiny. Historically, there never was a graceless nature, or a world outside the Christian dispensation. This traditional conception of human nature as always destined for grace-given union with God fell apart between attempts, on the one hand, to secure the sheer gratuitousness of the economy of grace over against the naturalist anthropologies of Renaissance humanism and, on the other hand, resistance to what was perceived by Counter-Reformation Catholics as the Protestant doctrine of the total corruption of human nature by original sin. The Catholic theologians, who sought to protect the supernatural by separating it conceptually from the natural, facilitated the development of the humanism which flowered at the Enlightenment into deism, agnosticism and ultimately atheism. The conception of the autonomous individual for which the philosophers of the Age of Reason were most bitterly criticized by devout Catholics was, de Lubac suggested, invented by Catholic theologians. The philosophers which broke free of Christianity, to develop their own naturalist and deist theologies, had their roots in the anti-Protestant and anti-Renaissance Catholic Scholasticism of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
— Fergus Kerr, Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians: From Neoscholasticism to Nuptial Mysticism
Life is short. Things can change very suddenly. Make the best of every situation. Look for the silver lining. Maintain a positive mindset. Remain optimistic. Never give up hope. Savor every day you are given. Live with gratitude. Appreciate even the smallest things. Genuinely do the best you can, and once you do, don't dimish this by undermining your efforts by whatever limitations you face. Acceptance can be hard at times, but it is necessary to keep moving forward. In order to deal with situations as they come in the best manner possible, we must let go of things we have no control over. Energy must go towards the here and now. Be cognizant of your blessings, of how precious life is. Live with gratitude and appreciate every moment.
— Akiroq Brost
Anyway, this girl... she's the love of my life. She's smart and funny and unbelievably compassionate. She forgives people even when they don't deserve it. She-""Good lay?" Pace interrupts. "Oh yeah. The best.
— Elle Kennedy, The Mistake
Though sometimes conflicted and seemingly restricted - grace be [the] wings of clarity.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Endure every hardship as a discipline of grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We shall overcome every barrier by divine grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life surrounds us. Each day we witness the plenteous gifts of nature. Even following the most bitterly cold winter, new life waits feverishly to erupt. The flower head sown in the prior season quickens to bloom in the eternal spring of wilderness gardens. Each of us hankers to blossom. Life is the active resistance to disintegration and death. A state of grace comes from a life devoted to seeking the pinnacle of human attainment. None of us should suppress our own or another person’s quest for transcendence. Each day we must give full measure to our internal life force. With all our energy and intuition, we must determinedly seek out what is the best part of us. We must faithfully tap our potential for goodness, unapologetically rip ourselves apart if need be, bravely go where we fear, and boldly tread where we must go in order to carry out the sacred blueprint for leading a meaningful life that is imbued in the deepest alcove of our unbidden souls.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
God's grace is sufficient for us to overcome any situation,
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Without grace, there is no gratitude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Grace is the fruit of gratitude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is grace to be forgiven of sinful acts, and grace to be supplied the heart for righteous ones.
— David Mathis, Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines
Only grace makes it possible to do the good we must do.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The grace of God cannot be quarantined to individuals.
— David Mathis, Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines
A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.
— John Piper
The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
There is a sacred duty, which you are divinely gifted to performed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.
— John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
Because of grace so many people will miss salvation
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Who am I to put boundaries on God’s forgiveness? If God had put boundaries on His grace and mercy to me, when would enough have been enough?
— Teresa Schultz, The Bible In Poetry,
It is when we are completely fulfilled and want for nothing more that we are given everything.
— Kate McGahan
I am so thankful for God’s mercy, grace, and patience for all the times I fell into sin. I am so grateful that He never stopped chasing me no matter how far I fell.
— Teresa Schultz, The Bible In Poetry,
The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.
— Rabindranath Tagore
May all humankind find the grace of goodwill.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
People are generally gracious and generous of spirit.
— Del Suggs, Truly Leading: Lessons in Leadership
The mercy of God's grace guides me in the right path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Once again was it proved that the designs of Providence are impenetrable and that the sinner, climbing out of the pit of his filthiness, may feel himself touched by grace.
— Gabriel Chevallier, Clochemerle Babylon
We will not be measured by the world’s standards anymore. We will be measured by the plumb line of God’s Word. We will be people who live out our Christianity by walking faithfully in obedience to God. We will love mercy and justice. We will love others the way God loves us— unconditionally, relentlessly, and with grace.
— Teresa Schultz, The Bible In Poetry,
Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect.
— Kamand Kojouri
At end of Life, you realize life is enough.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Grace is goodness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is enough grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Grace is as good as gold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can never escape God's Grace because as you run from it, you run to it.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Goodness is grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The fires of refinement come with a cost, but also with a promise. His grace has been extended forth to you for restoration, confirmation, strengthening, and being established in Him.
— Robin Bertram, No Regrets: How Loving Deeply and Living Passionately Can Impact Your Legacy Forever
We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.
— Criss Jami
I used to move gracefully. I used to know the word grace to the center of my bones. Now I seek it every day and fall short, inevitably, every day. I lost grace.
— Katherine  Locke, Second Position
His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.
— Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life
I wondered how much time they'd spent practicing entrances like this one, smoothing away their rough edges and rendering them brief but potent expressions of effortless grace. I decided to stop thinking about it, and just be grateful that there was no circumstance, however, unlikely, that could put me in their place.
— Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith
Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.
— Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life
Because I am united to Christ, God’s love for me is not as variable as my loyalty to him…. God will not love me more because I do better. He will not love me less because I stumble. His love is based not on my behavior but on my union with his Son – a union built on trust in his grace, not my goodness.
— Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life
Grace unfolds on every page [of Scripture]: God’s long march through the history of human rebellion and ruin to reach us with the love of his Son; the Savior’s humble service, sinless life, sacrificial death, victorious resurrection, and promised return; the Holy Spirit’s indwelling witness, power, and advocacy—all unswerving despite our wayward ways and hard hearts.
— Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life
Grace is never out of view. Grace secures our relationship with God despite our sin. Grace maintains our forgiveness despite the inadequacies of our repentance. Grace filters the consequences of sin in order to protect us from spiritual harm. When this grace captures our hearts, it compels us to love and serve the God who provides its lavish, loving, and lasting provisions.
— Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life
Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.It means “full of grace”.
— Ann Voskamp
If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one might conclude that this is part of God's sovereign justice. His grace, however, is that He Himself will always be there for you, no matter what.
— Criss Jami
Grace doesn't grease the wheels of the law. Grace isn't God's way of jury rigging a broken law. It's the other way around. The law is just one small cog in a world animated entirely--from top to bottom, from beginning to end--by grace.
— Adam S. Miller, Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans
The will is the grace to win the battle of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Making decent human beings accept the principle of a private, divine covenant be it first, second, third, old, new or whatever, will destroy all humanity and decency in our species.All these diverging and contradicting one man “revelations” will always destroy our HUMAN grace, to serve one of the many “versions” of a hypothetical DIVINE grace…Something like… rape for a divine virginity…
— Haroutioun Bochnakian, The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
I feel thankful for the grace of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sin acts as if God's original plan was for us to bootstrap ourselves into holiness by way of the law and then, when this didn't quite pan out, God offered his grace--but only the bare minimum--to make good the difference. This is exactly backwards. God's boundless grace comes first and sin is what follows.
— Adam S. Miller, Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans
Law existed before grace and mercy. The law is static it cannot save. Inside of time only grace and mercy can save. It is not the job of the intellect to tame the passions of the heart, that is the job of the spirit. Emotion is deep and highly nuanced, it cannot be described by any mathematical equation. Dynamic problems require dynamic solutions.
— R.A.Delmonico
Our ultimate devotion is to be a reflection of a divine work that is continuously unfolding in our hearts.
— Andrena Sawyer
Existence is enough grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You must work for grace and favor to work for you.
— Sunday Adelaja
God gives grace to the humble
— Sunday Adelaja
Gathering together of believers helps to grow in grace
— Sunday Adelaja
[Present over perfect is] about rejecting the myth that every day is a new opportunity to prove our worth, and about the truth that our worth is inherent, given by God, not earned by our hustling.
— Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
Here I can become the blessing, a little life that multiplies joy, making the larger world a better place.God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Grace is root of a good life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Grace is the gateway to heaven.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A heart full of grace is gift of gladness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our greatest need is God’s grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
O God gives us all grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We can good deed by God’s grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Living life is the greatest grace from God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Without gospel, how could know the great grace of salvation?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With such a great affliction, I found the grace of liberty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be taken away.
— Amanda Ward Eyre
Without God’s help and His grace, it is impossible for a country to be transformed
— Sunday Adelaja
Grace is a great mercy of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to walk on water, because we have been taught that such things have to be earned; we should deserve them; we must be qualified. We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. But a child rejoices in presents!
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
When a 'setback' brings a 'comeback,' that's grace in action!
— Evinda Lepins, A Cup of Grace for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power
He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which, instant by instant, gives life to the soul. It is a concern with a realization that breeds charity and with the charity that breeds action. Often the nature of grace can be made plain only by describing its absence.
— Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
The dazzle of illusion, even when we see through it; the ways in which we entangle ourselves, the ways in which we work free-How do we get to change?When all is said and done, it seems a matter of grace.
— U.R. Ananthamurthy ಯು. ಆರ್. ಅನ೦ತಮೂರ್ತಿ, Bhava
Life-giving ministry flows from lives that are full of gratitude to God, not with an expectation of gratitude from others. In community we can support one another, affirm contributions and yet also trust that our work is sustained by grace.
— Christopher L. Heuertz, Friendship at the Margins: Discovering Mutuality in Service and Mission
The reverence of God is grace to act right.
— Lailah Gfty Akita
There is nothing more gracious than genuinely embracing other people's good fortune. It will work for you when your time comes.
— Margaux Bergen
Look closely for the fingerprints of God's faithfulness throughout the seasons of your life.
— Nancy Kay Grace, The Grace Impact
A shared table is the supreme expression of hospitality in every culture on earth. When your worn-out kitchen table hosts good people and good conversation, when it provides a safe place to break bread and share wine, your house becomes a sanctuary, holy as a cathedral. I've left a friend's table as sanctified and renewed as any church service. If you have a porch, then you have an altar to gather around.
— Jen Hatmaker, For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
Grace is the ability to accept change. Be open and supple
—  the brittle break.
When someone is happy and satisfied with himself and things around him, divine grace resides at his face.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.
— Richard J. Foster
In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.
— Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Grace is loving people for who they are, where they are. It's loving people *before* they change, not just *after* they change. And that grace is the difference between holy and holier-than-thou. Holiness, in its purest form, is irresistible. That's why sinners couldn't be kept away from Jesus. Hypocrisy has the opposite effect. It's as repulsive to the irreligious as the Pharisees' religiosity was to Jesus.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous.
— Mac Canoza
Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.
— Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
[…] God gives grace for the situation, not the imagination.
— Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace
Mature Christians daily recognize how short they fall in keeping God's law and realizes how desperately they needs God's grace.
— Ibrahim Emile
Whatever your problems may be, they pale in insignificance in the light of eternity. No matter how great your failures, God's grace is greater still. Lift up your heart and face life head-on.
— Prince Akwarandu
Life on Earth indeed can seem but one hard-earned lesson after another, with moments of grace and beauty in between to keep people sane, and hopeful. While some die peacefully at the natural end of a long, well-lived life, even they still haven't completed everything they meant to, or lived without regret. And some of us thought we'd have more time to things right. I tell myself that at least we planted some seeds- ideas of love, and faith, and loyalty- that are starting to show signs of growth. Time will tell.
— Lorna Jane Cook, Outside Wonderland
Everyone deserves something so much better than what they deserve.
— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)
— Neena Verma, A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration
Lament invoked love.Woe invoked wonder.Grief invoked grace.Cry invoked celebration.(Page 80)
— Neena Verma, A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration
The Bible never speaks of God's grace as simply making up our deficiencies--as if salvation consists in so much good works (even a variable amount) plus so much of God's grace. Rather the Bible speaks of "a God who justifies the wicked" (Romans 4:5) who is found by those who do not seek Him, who reveals Himself to those who do not ask for Him (see Romans 10:20).
— Jerry Bridges, Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love
I’m not God, and I can’t always offer chances. I’m not sure if this won’t be your last.
— Kellyn Roth, The Lady of the Vineyard
Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.
— Matthew Henry
Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?
— Sarah Ruhl, The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies
I love my own graceful gracious gracesensitive by sensitivity as can be.Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion of Blue CircleOctober 21, 2016
— Petra Hermans
Law merely indicated the sickness
—  grace brought about the cure.
Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.
— Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?
A lady laced with grace . . . Such, is impossible to despise.
— Ufuoma Apoki
It seems to happen sudden—a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save himself—no energy wasted... he slips and slides— he travels with the punch. . . . Oh, sure, I like the way you're shaping up.
— Clifford Odets, Golden Boy
With grace and gratitude, life is filled with endless gladness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
... you can love completely without complete understanding.""That I have known and preached." my father said.
— Norman Maclean
Grace upon grace upon grace, until we have made our way home.
— T.B. LaBerge
God's government is perfect and just. His moral law is "holy, righteous and good" (Romans 7:12). No one ever has a valid reason to rebel against the government of God. We rebel for only one reason: We were born rebellious. We were born with a perverse inclination to go our own way, to set up our own internal government rather than submit to God.
— Jerry Bridges, Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love
The grace of life is the seed of endless gladness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Lulu owns the kitchen,while Gracie owns the world.Petra Hermans
— Petra Hermans
In essence, Satan doesn't want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you.
— Ralph Harris
I am Grace.
— Petra Hermans
Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.
— Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?
Grace is shockingly personal. As Henri Nouwen points out, 'God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.
— Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?
God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.
— Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?
Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more... And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less... Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.
— Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?
Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.
— Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?
A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.
— Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?
Hope is the grace of a happy heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
— John Tauler
QUIETUDELet this silence becomea celebration, my rainbow shining that couragecelestial diamonds scatter in darknessmy starlight reaching, engulfing bringing sacred laughterto the innermost. Grace.The whole pointof my refrain.
— Tara Estacaan
I am a Christian because of God's grace. I find it in no other faith system. The Christian gospel is rather simple. I love the way Tim Keller puts it: "I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me." The result is that I neither swagger nor snivel; I live with thanksgiving, overwhelmed and overjoyed by grace. This path seems to lead us to a place of needing to be noticed less often, and being less concerned with how we're thought of.
— Phil Callaway, To Be Perfectly Honest: One Man's Year of Almost Living Truthfully Could Change Your Life. No Lie.
Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your own.
— Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
Life connects us all to magic, as illustrated through the design of the Grace. So, for a Confessor, I don't need a gifted person, just a living one.
— Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor
The Grace represented the world of life, the world of the dead, and the way magic and Creation linked them. The outer circle of the design represented the beginning of the infinite world of the dead. Inside the outer circle was a square, its points just touching the outer circle. Inside the square was another circle, just touching the insides of the square. The area between those two circles with the square represented the world of life. The inside circle was life's beginnings, the outer circle its end, where souls crossed through the veil into the eternity of the underworld. An eight-pointed star inside the smaller circle was the Light of Creation. Lines from the star's points radiated out across the inner circle. the square. and across the outer circle that also symbolized the veil to the wold of the dead. The lines radiating outward from the Light represented the spark of the gift that journeyed with everyone from birth, through life, and on into death.
— Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor
The Grace represents the interconnection of everything, the world of life and the world of the dead, Additive and Subtractive, as well as the spark of the gift that runs though it all. The Grace does more though, than simply represent Additive and Subtractive magic, Creation and obliteration, life and death, it connects them into a cohesive whole. The power of Orden deals with life, death and the whole nature of existence so the key also needs to have both sides. It needs both Additive and Subtractive, life and death to be complete.
— Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor
A man makes himself hard and inflexible in order to escape his guiltiness. The strange paradox present on every page of the Gospels and which we can verify any day, is that it is not guilt which is the obstacle to grace, as moralism supposes. On the contrary, it is the repression of guilt, self-justification, genuine self-righteousness and smugness which is the obstacle.
— Paul Tournier, Guilt And Grace
God will give you more than you can handle because it is in your surrender that He gives you your victory!
— Todd Stocker
O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).
— Richard Baxter