Quotes about Grace

When God is all you have, then all you have is all you need.

It is not repentance that saves me; repentance is the sign that I realise what God has done in Christ Jesus.

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone, he would not; Incarnate, he could and did.

So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate, Giving to death, and dying to redeem, So dearly to redeem what hellish hate So easily destroy'd, and still destroys, In those who, when they may, accept not grace.

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: with that thy gentle hand Seisd mine, I yielded, and from that time see How beauty is excelld by manly grace.

A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?

Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand, Whether I should repent me now of sin By me done, and occasioned; or rejoice Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring; To God more glory, more good-will to men From God, and over wrath grace shall abound.

Whom hast thou then, or what, to accuse, but heaven's free love dealt equally t'all?

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am