Quotes about Grace
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we've done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can't.
— Desmond Tutu
We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.
— Arianna Huffington
Beauty is the gift of God.
— Aristotle
I might have some difficult questions, but I know God is still good and he has been merciful and gracious.
— Jeremy Camp
Laughter is God's blessing.
— Joseph Prince
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
— Frederick Buechner
The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them.
— Frederick Buechner
He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.
— Frederick Buechner
There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.
— Frederick Buechner
Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation He will descend in His wild pursuit of men.
— Frederick Buechner