Quotes about Grace
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
How many Christians there are who cannot pray, and who seek by effort, resolve, joining prayer circles, etc., to cultivate in themselves the ''holy art of intercession,'' and all to no purpose. Here for them and for all is the only secret of a real prayer life—''Be filled with the Spirit,'' who is ''the Spirit of grace and supplication.'' —REV. J. STUART HOLDEN
— Leonard Ravenhill
If we today could rediscover the virtue in that Name, the victory in that Name, the violence in that Name, we could set this world alight for God. Most of us have enough grace to scrape through the day, but we have nothing over. We are conquerors but are not "more than conquerors." We can fight off the enemy but cannot take any prisoners. Ours is a defense action, not an attacking power.
— Leonard Ravenhill
We bless others naturally through our strengths. But we bless others supernaturally through our weaknesses.
— Leonard Sweet
We don't need to travel to find Christ. Christ has already traveled to find us. God is not the one whose back is turned. It is we who, for whatever reason, get our backs up or don't turn back to God.
— Leonard Sweet
Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
— Lewis Carroll
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
— James Allen
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.
— Rowan Williams
The best thing of all is God is with us.
— John Wesley
If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
— Rick Warren