Choose Grace Quotes

#1. Yeah, okay. But, Nico, you do choose how to live your life. You want to trust somebody? Maybe take a risk that I'm really your friend and I'll accept you. It's better than hiding.

Rick Riordan

#2. Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#3. Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by the living of our days, and whether we like it or not, whether we choose to participate or not, we will, in time, every one of us, wear the deeper part of who we are as a new skin.

Mark Nepo

#4. Don't be a victim of circumstances. Choose victory by gracious endurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness.

Dean Koontz

#6. You choose your behaviors based on their metaphorical resonances ... - Hazel Grace Lancaster

John Green

#7. Every girl - and boy, if you so choose - should take some ballet. Because ballet gives you grace. It gives you [the ability] to work with your hands. It's all about your hands.

Stevie Nicks

#8. Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

Randy Alcorn

#9. The means of choice:
She might choose to ascend
The falling dream,
By some angelic power without a name
Reverse the motion, plunge into upwardness,
Know height without an end,
Density melt to air, silence yield a voice
Within her fall she felt the pull of Grace.

May Sarton

#10. Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

Thomas Watson

#11. When you encounter uncomfortable situations, you can either decide to be victim or an over-comer. Always choose to be an over-comer. Grace is within our reach to be an over-comer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Sometimes, the only choices you have are horrible ones," she says. "But you must still choose. That is when you know you are strong, and there is grace in the struggle.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#13. Let's be courageous in these days. Let's choose love and rest and grace. Let's use our minutes and hours to create memories with the people we love instead of dragging them on one more errand or shushing them while we accomplish one more seemingly necessary thing.

Shauna Niequist

#14. We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

Barbara Johnson

#15. Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today.

Charlton Heston

#16. [Grace talking to Billy.] "It's like people who want to feel only happy but not sad," she said. "It never works. You either feel things or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose. At least, I don't think so.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#17. The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen. They are. The question is, when they do happen, how are we going to choose to look at them, contextualize them, and navigate them?

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#18. Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

John Calvin

#19. We don't get to choose what we carry, but we do get to choose the grace with which we carry it. I

Mia Sheridan

#20. Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.

Marcia Angell

#21. Where did everyone find the will to do all the work in the world? We're all allowed a kind of grace period, she decided, when we can coast along, before we really need to choose a life and summon the determination to live it. Her grace period had just run out.

Alethea Black

#22. Prayers are answered in ways we don't choose. The river of grace bubbles up in unexpected places.

Lisa Wingate

#23. I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.

Oprah Winfrey

#24. For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.

Michael Pollan

#25. You don't have to live with whatever life throws you--or whatever you've gotten yourself into...
You can choose to Change Your Story!

Kirstin Leigh

#26. There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements.

Frederick Lenz

#27. Living with animals can be a wonderful experience, especially if we choose to learn the valuable lessons animals teach through their natural enthusiasm, grace, resourcefulness, affection and forgiveness.

Richard Pitcairn

#28. At this moment, each one of us is as close to God's throne of grace as we choose to be.

Joyce Meyer

#29. Words matter, he tells them and us, and we have a choice to use them for good or for ill. We can choose to be boastful, mouth off a snide comment, fire a well-placed jab. Or we can let our words be a reflection of God's grace, so the words that echo are of peace and healing, not brokenness and pain.

Richelle Thompson

#30. With each opportunity before me, God presented me with a choice. I could accept His offerings, His wisdom, His grace. Or I could choose to hold onto the pain, the anger and the resentment a little longer.

Sharon E. Rainey

#31. I don't feel we necessarily choose our life experiences. I think karma and grace give us what we need to have.

Jai Uttal

#32. A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

Dean Koontz

#33. Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE.

Jay Woodman

#34. We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

Francois Fenelon

#35. Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.

Charles Spurgeon

#36. The way I look at scripture, we're given one right and only one--the ability to choose. Anything and everything else we are given is grace.

Darlene Schacht

#37. Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu