Quotes about Grace

When I ask my "Catholic" students what they would say to God if they died tonight and God asked them why He should let them into Heaven, fewer than 5% ever even mention Jesus Christ.

Grace is not in nature so much as nature is in grace. Saint Thérèse said, on her deathbed, "Everything is grace.

Our only qualification for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness. 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous but the sinners.' (Mk 2:17). Similarly, on an infinitely lower level, this book is for empty hearts, not full ones.

The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others.

There is a legend that in every age God spares the world the destruction it deserves only because there are a certain number of Abrahams, righteous men and women who keep the world alive by their righteousness and their prayers, by the mass and the gravity of their righteousness reverberating on the walls of the divine mercy. No one but God knows who these righteous are or how many there are.

is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He

we forgive those who trespass

All the way to Heaven is Heaven", said Saint Catherine of Siena. We

The "good news" part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation.

He turned His back upon His Son so that He would never have to turn His back on you.

The Bible says when others treat you badly, you're supposed to love them, pray for them, bless them, and do good things for them. If you can't do it because you want to, then you must do it because you're obedient.

The same grace that transports us to heaven also gives us composure when our flights are delayed or the traffic is jammed up.