Grace Quotes

Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to navigate life with some degree of grace, and perhaps with a greater degree of happiness than we now have.

~ Jeffrey R. Anderson

Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.

~ Orrin Woodward

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

~ Abigail Van Buren

I want to wake up ev­ery day I have left to the warmth of your lips on mine, the sound of your voice singing next to me, the feel of your fin­gers on my skin and your heart beat­ing mu­sic with mine.

~ Christine Zolendz

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

~ Madeleine L'engle

He was everything I’d ever wanted, and everything I hadn’t even known I needed.

~ Alice Clayton

Unconditional love is not affirming another in every decision they make especially when those choices are unhealthy. Unconditional love will risk offending in the name of genuine concern. It will risk relationship for the ultimate well-being of the other. To indiscriminately affirm the unhealthy choices of others is not love at all but perhaps the worst kind of fraud.

~ Michael M. Rose

He let his guitar swing behind him and cupped my face with his hand. I love you, Grace Taylor. It barely came out above a whisper from his lips but it echoed throught the microphone. And then he kissed me. In front of everyone, he kissed me. A slow, deep kiss that sent heat from my lips to every other surface of my skin, and completely an utterly set me on fire.

~ Christine Zolendz

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

~ Dean Koontz

I assigned him to help me trim the Brussels sprouts, but instead he kept trying to throw them away when he thought I wasn’t looking. “Brussels sprouts, Grace, really? These are our friends. Why are you doing this to them?

~ Alice Clayton

With my guitar, I could write my own stories, my own poems, and my own destiny. No one could take away the feelings, the emotions or the truth of my notes. They could hide secrets and provoke images of words that never should be whispered. I could compose the melody of my aching heart and write into it my own happily ever after since no one seemed to think after all my suffering I deserved one. That's okay, I would make my own.

~ Christine Zolendz

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

~ Peter Kreeft

I'm never one, distinct color but a dichotomy of dark and bright. The hues follow me, reflecting my mood, displaying every tone and shade I feel. I can breathe in red and exhale blue, or swim in green and dry as a rainbow. It all depends on how I choose to react to every shadow and light beam headed my way.

~ Linda Kage

God save her from annoying Alphas.

~ Jill Shalvis

I wish I could just fling myself into bed with you, but I can’t. I don’t want to be used that way and I don’t want to use you! Can’t you understand that?

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Please Julian,” she whispered to him as he slept beside her. “Don’t leave me.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

For most of my life I have thought of grace as a hope of a bright tomorrow in spite of the darkness of today--and this is true. In this way we are all like Pamela, walking a road to grace--hoping for mercy. What we fail to realize is that grace is more than our destination, it is the journey itself, manifested in each breath and with each step we take. Grace surrounds us, whirls about us like the wind, falls on us like rain. Grace sustains us on our journeys, no matter how perilous they may be and, make no mistake, they are all perilous. We need not hope for grace, we merely need to open our eyes to its abundance. Grace is all around us, not just in the hopeful future but in the miracle of now.

~ Richard Paul Evans

Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense!That all this good of evil shall produce,And evil turn to good; more wonderfulThan that which by creation first brought forthLight out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand,Whether I should repent me now of sinBy me done, and occasioned; or rejoiceMuch more, that much more good thereof shall spring;To God more glory, more good-will to menFrom God, and over wrath grace shall abound.

~ John Milton

Don't let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.

~ Paul Ellis

The fallacy in Peter's mind was this: he believed his relationship was dependent on his consistency in producing the qualities he thought had earned him the Lord's approval.

~ Lloyd John Ogilvie

We are all sinners who have been saved by Grace. We have not been saved from sinning, but we have been redeemed despite it.~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

It is a terrible smudge on grace and unconditional love to think that God simply winks and smiles at our poor choices, that God must rubber stamp everything we do or else He is unloving. God loves us unconditionally regardless of our performance - good or bad. When God challenges us or corrects us He does not stop loving us. In the safety of His love we can receive correction and challenge without shame or feelings of rejection.

~ Michael M. Rose

Grace is not a doctrine or a religion. It is a person, Jesus Christ.

~ John Paul Warren

Suddenly, as one, all the Greys stop talking and gape at Christian. What? Christian is singing softly to himself at the piano. Silence descends on us all as we strain to hear his soft, lyrical voice. I've heard him sing before, haven't they? He stops, suddenly conscious of the deathly hush that's fallen over the room. Kate glances questioningly at me and I shrug. Christian turns on the stool and frowns, embarrassed to realize he's become the center of attention.'Go on,' Grace urges softly. 'I've never heard you sing, Christian. Ever.

~ E.l. James

... the pursuit of holiness must bre anchored in grace, otherwise it is doomed to failure.

~ Jerry Bridges

He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.

~ Nadia Scrieva

Amazing grace, amazing life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A divine power delivers us from every danger.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.

~ Mango Wodzak

This is what grace does. It rescues us from our spiritual blindness. It releases us from our bondage to our rationalism and materialism. Grace gives us the faith to be utterly assured of what we cannot see. It frees us from refusing to believe in anything we cannot experience with our physical senses. But grace does more. It connects us to the invisible One in an eternal love relationship that fills us with joy we have never known before and gives us rest of heart that we would have though impossible. And that grace is still rescuing us, because we still tend to forget what is important, real, and true. We still tend to look to the physical world for our comfort. We still fail to remember in given moments that we really do have a heavenly Father. Grace has done a wonderful thing for us and continues to do more and more.

~ Paul David Tripp

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

~ Walter Lippmann

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

~ Meryl Streep

With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.

~ Roger Mahony

We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.

~ Jeff Foxworthy

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

~ Anne Lamott

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

~ Thomas Guthrie

I had always been proud of my body - its strength and grace enabled me to pursue my passions.

~ Misty Copeland

Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

~ David Brainerd

The overwhelming message of the Atonement is the perfect love the Savior has for each and all of us. It is a love which is full of mercy, patience, grace, equity, long-suffering, and, above all, forgiving.

~ James E. Faust