Quotes about Grace

Humility takes a supply of supernatural strength that comes only to those strong enough to admit weakness

Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.

If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

He said God could distinguish a sinner from a sin.

As for Franny, she wanted what she most often experienced in her dreams. To be among the birds. She preferred them to most human beings, their grace, their distance from the earth, their great beauty. Perhaps that was why they always came to her. In some way, she spoke their language.

I wished to be forgiven. 'It was always so in the eyes of God,' Shirah told me.