Quotes about Grace
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
— Teresa of Avila
Wrinkles happen to human beings.
— Jennifer Aniston
As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
— Billy Graham
Dearest Lord Jesus, keep me from sin, protect me from evil, and bring peace within.
— Hannah Alexander
The third thing that I learned was that you, my Lord, never regarded me as I actually was, lame and weak and crooked and cowardly. You saw me as I would be when you had done what you promised and had brought me to the High Places, when it could be truly said, 'There is none that walks with such a queenly ease, nor with such grace, as she.'
— Hannah Hurnard
Accept and bear and obey the Law of Love, and nothing will be able to cripple your hinds' feet or to separate you from me. This is the secret of the High Places, Grace and Glory, it is the lovely and perfect law of the whole universe. It is this that makes the radiant joy of the Heavenly Places.
— Hannah Hurnard
Christ came into the world to save sinners, not good people, and your unworthiness is your greatest claim for His salvation.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Put together all the tenderest love you know of dear reader the deepest you have ever felt and the strongest that has ever been poured out upon you and heap upon it all the love of all the loving human hearts in the world and then multiply it by infinity and you will begin perhaps to have some faint glimpses of what the love of God in Christ Jesus is. And this is grace.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
My part, was the prompt reply, was to run away, and the Lord's part was to run after me until He caught me.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
It is not because things are good that we are to thank the Lord, but because He is good.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.
— Maya Angelou
In our case, my children and I couldn't have made it through the tough times without the grace of God and the wonderful support we received from family and friends.
— Monty Williams