Quotes about Grace

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

But however much that virtue may be praised and cried up, which without true piety is the slave of human glory, it is not at all to be compared even to the feeble beginnings of the virtue of the saints, whose hope is placed in the grace and mercy of the true God.

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Worldy honor hath also its grace, and the power of overcoming, and of mastery; whence springs also the thirst of revenge. But yet, to obtain all these, we may not depart from Thee, O Lord, nor decline from Thy law.

The life also which here we live hath its own enchantment, through a certain proportion of its own, and a correspondence with all things beautiful here below.

Thus, by the unutterable mercy of God, even the very punishment of wickedness has become the armor of virtue, and the penalty of the sinner becomes the reward of the righteous.

Our God have mercy upon us, that we may use the law lawfully, the end of the commandment, pure charity.

Wherefore, whoever he be who deems himself happy because of license to revile, he would be far happier if that were not allowed him at all; for he might all the while, laying aside empty boast, be contradicting those to whose views he is opposed by way of free consultation with them, and be listening, as it becomes him, honorably, gravely, candidly, to all that can be adduced by those whom he consults by friendly disputation.

Real and secure felicity is the peculiar possession of those who worship that God by whom alone it can be conferred.

They have made Virtue also a goddess, which, indeed, if it could be a goddess, had been preferable to many. And now, because it is not a goddess, but a gift of God, let it be obtained by prayer from Him, by whom alone it can be given, and the whole crowd of false gods vanishes.