Grace Quotes

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

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.

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

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

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

Grace can and does have a history.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.