Quotes about Grace

I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth.

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

How goodness heightens beauty!

I needed to let go of the idea of a God who was mad at me for feeling how I was feeling. Now, I bask in an understanding of the divine that delights in truth and the complexities of the human experience - even when it's not very 'clean.'

Being humble matters.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us.

You were there teaching me to squander, so that one day we might have nothing left except this love of You. But You are too good to me. When I ask You for Pain, You give me peace. Give it him too. Give him my peace-he needs it more.

That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins—impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity—cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all.

Not many men can have been so loved or have been forgiven so much [...]

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

Unbelievers are not the enemy—they are people for whom Christ died. We need to remember we were each one of them once.