Quotes about Grace

It may be one of those miracles where your heart sinks, because you think it means you have lost. But in surrender you have won. And if it were me, after a moment, I would say, Thanks.

Grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

You can't logically get from where we were to where we are now. I think that is what they mean by grace.

I tried to cooperate with grace, which is to say, I did not turn on the TV.

God makes a way out of no way.

There is so much mercy around us and in us, so much available to us if we just have the eyes and intention to see it.

The good news is that God has such low standards, and reaches out to those of us who are often not lovable and offers us a chance to come back in from the storm of drama and toxic thoughts.

God isn't there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it with his or her presence

The last word will not be our bad thoughts and behavior, but mercy, love, and forgiveness.

My elderly priest friend Terry says, "Don't try harder—resist less.

Hello, Dearest. I'm so glad it's you!" I've come to believe that this is how God feels when I pray, even at my least attractive.

Then Mason made an astonishing comment. He said to the girl, adamantly, in his slightly garbled and mumbly way, "You know, I used to have brain cancer. I was in a coma, and then I was here again." I had to close my eyes at the beauty of his understanding—that he was here again. He had woken up, as we are all called to do. I said, "You are a miracle.