Quotes about Grace

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary

True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.

What we fail to realize is that grace is more than our destination, it is the journey itself, manifested in each breath and with each step we take. Grace surrounds us, whirls about us like the wind, falls on us like rain. Grace sustains us on our journeys, no matter how perilous they may be and, make no mistake, they are all perilous. We need not hope for grace, we merely need to open our eyes to its abundance. Grace is all around us, not just in the hopeful future but in the miracle of now.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others.

Because even that little boy knows that love can't be earned. The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

One cannot understand the power of grace until one has needed it. Or given it.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.