Quotes about Grace

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

No man is so regenerate, but that continually he has need of the means which Christ Jesus has appointed to be used in his kirk.

Our conduct is not the basis for our salvation, but is influenced by our salvation.

Grace, too, is not an impersonal, metaphysical substance that trickles down to people through the sacraments, as in much popular Catholicism. Grace is an irreducibly personal category, first, in that it is a personal attitude of favor from God's heart, bringing us into relationship with him as our Savior, Friend, and Father.

God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

God's Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

Some people ask me what it's like to be forgiven, to feel grace. It's like walking on a long stretch of beach with nothing in sight but sky and waves and sand. With the sun piercing its brightness, the water tickling my toes, the roaring of the sea singing omniscience and power and yet, a deep peace, the waters changing from sandy brown to light green to a heavy blue, the waves cresting with the white peaks and then rushing to find my toes.

God does not waste our suffering. It always serves a purpose.