Grace Quotes

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

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

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

The grace of life is the seed of endless gladness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In essence, Satan doesn't want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you.

~ Ralph Harris

Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.

~ Philip Yancey

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

God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.

~ Philip Yancey

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

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.

~ Philip Yancey

A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.

~ Philip Yancey

Hope is the grace of a happy heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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 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 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

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

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).

~ Richard Baxter

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

All can be done if the god-touch is there

~ Sri Aurobindo

It's when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to them as we can. If we really did attempt to return to them, we would find Moses as well as Christ, Calvin, and his legions of intellectual heirs. And we would find a recurrent, passionate, insistence on bounty or liberality, mercy and liberality, on being kind and liberal, liberal and bountiful, and enjoying the great blessings God has promised to liberality to the poor.

~ Marilynne Robinson

I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Your imperfections make you the perfect tool for God to work with. John 3:16

~ Felix Wantang

We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. It is the message of grace.~Quote by Brennan Manning

~ Tullian Tchividjian

One-way love is rare, though, and it always comes as a surprise. Fortunately, the glimpses we receive in relationships are only a foreshadowing of God's love for us. They are like little arrows that point to the very heart of the universe, what Dante called 'the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars,' the love that received its fullest expression in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people. Far from being a book full of moral heroes whom we are commanded to emulate, what we discover is that the so-called heroes in the Bible are not really heroes at all. They fall and fail; they make huge mistakes; they get afraid; they're selfish, deceptive, egotistical, and unreliable. The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)

~ Tullian Tchividjian

What then do we learn from Paul's unbroken pattern of beginning and ending his letters this way (Grace be to you. Grace be with you.)? We learn that grace is an unmistakable priority in the Christian life. We learn that it is from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, but that it can come through people. We learn that grace is ready to flow to us every time we take up the inspired Scriptures to read them. And we learn that grace will abide with us when we lay the Bible down and go about our daily living. In other words, we learn that grace is not merely a past reality but a future one. Every time I reach for the Bible, God's grace is a reality that will flow to me. Every time I put the Bible down and go about my business, God's grace will go with me. This is what I mean by future grace.

~ John Piper

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.

~ Vincent Louis Carrella

What you will encounter is 'grace unmeasured, vast and free' --the kind that will frighten and free you at the same time. That's what grace does, after all.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

Grace is the seed of all goodness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites and escapes.

~ Joseph Conrad

The living and dead world are separated by breath.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May God continue to give you much more grace for every great deed.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita