Top 100 Grace Is Quotes
#2. Grace is God's aggressive pursuit of, and stubborn delight in, freakishly foul people.
Preston Sprinkle
#3. A vital component of charity and grace is the ability not to draw attention to one's possession of them. Penelope pursed her lips as she pushed Eloise
Julia Quinn
#4. Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.
Timothy Keller
#5. Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies ... waters that have no life.
Ann Voskamp
#6. Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101.
Anne Lamott
#7. Grace is the state of being in which we are loved unconditionally and all that we need is provided for us by the benevolent hand of God.
Alan Cohen
#8. The gospel of grace is glad tidings of great joy to all people, not condemning, miserable, hopeless pills we can't swallow.
Paul Silway
#9. The gospel enables you and your children to face the worst in yourselves - your sin, your badness, and your weakness - and still find hope, because grace is powerful.
Tedd Tripp
#11. Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all
John Calvin
#12. Cheap grace is not the kind of forgiveness of sin which frees us from the toils of sin. Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#13. Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!
C. JoyBell C.
#14. Grace is wild. Grace unsettles everything. Grace overflows the banks. Grace messes up your hair. Grace is not tame.
Doug Wilson
#15. Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.
Marquis De Custine
#16. Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.
Benjamin Jowett
#17. Sometimes it's right to meet in the middle, but sometimes, the simplest act of grace is to meet the other person where they are. That, that is love
Mia Sheridan
#18. Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him
C.S. Lewis
#19. Grace is God's unmerited favor. It is kindness and love we do not deserve, a free gift that can never be earned. This divine help and support is provided to help us through the sanctification process.
Cheryl Zelenka
#20. The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
Richard Paul Evans
#21. In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
Thomas Aquinas
#22. Grace is the unmerited favor of God.
Anonymous
#24. And yet
it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. His lithe and lethal grace is hypnotic, too, in the way he moves like a leopard in the African grass, even if it's just striding down a sidewalk. I got sucked into all this, but I can't afford to let it ...
Jasinda Wilder
#27. Justice is getting what you deserve.
Mercy is not getting what you deserve.
And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve.
... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift
Cathleen Falsani
#28. Memory is a means of possession, but eventually, the greatest grace is found in letting go.
Michael Perry
#29. The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
Martin Luther
#32. Sarah wonders if whatever secrets Grace is protecting feel the same as her own, sometimes just fuzzy and ticklish, like a littler of kittens trying to climb and paw their way out, and sometimes with claws bared, kittens grown to tigers, camouflaged but always ready to spring.
Beth Neff
#33. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.
Max Lucado
#34. Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
Philip Yancey
#35. The remedy for our deadness to God's grace is more grace.5
Jared C. Wilson
#36. Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
Ann Voskamp
#37. Grace is letting something else - something so much bigger than you - carry you home. It's having and wanting nowhere else to be but in a moment that wants you and takes you just as you are.
Hannah Brencher
#38. He's God ... and his grace is a part of him working relentlessly on our behalf ... never leaving, never abandoning, never stopping.
Carl Prude Jr.
#39. The most extravagant sinners of Jesus's day receive His most compassionate welcome. Grace is a divine vulgarity that stands caution on its head. It refuses to play it safe and lay it up. Grace is recklessly generous, uncomfortably promiscuous.
Preston Sprinkle
#41. God's grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it.
David Jeremiah
#42. Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
Max Lucado
#43. Grace is a feminine quality.
Rajneesh
#44. In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
Robert Hunter
#45. We are not called to pray independently, by our merits. If we were expected to do so, there would be reason for anxiety and despair. But the call to prayer, by God's grace, is to pray in dependency on the Holy Spirit.
James W. Beeke
#46. By the Blessed Virgin ! Is it possible that your grace is so thickheaded and so short on brains that you cannot see that what I'm telling you is the absolute truth.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#47. The beauty of grace is that God chooses to use imperfect people to demonstrate His perfect glory, love and Truth to this world.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#49. Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.
Philip Yancey
#50. Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#51. The approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
Philip Yancey
#52. Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
Cathleen Falsani
#53. Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.
Monica Johnson
#54. Grace is above praise and blame. I never read the bad stuff people write, but I never read the good stuff, either. Ever. I know who I am, and I know that God looks down on me and smiles. I know that - without a shadow of a doubt.
Suze Orman
#55. The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary
Richard Paul Evans
#56. For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.
Martin Luther
#57. Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.
C.I. Scofield
#58. I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.
James Hudson Taylor
#59. Grace is the supernatural power that enables us to live out the true Christian life, as God supernaturally forms Christ inside of us.
Eddie Summers
#60. In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.
John Calvin
#61. The easiest way I have found to humble myself back into a state of peaceful grace is through the act of gratitude.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#62. Truth without grace is what the enemy brings when he comes as an 'angel of light.
Rick Joyner
#63. The glorious Vishnu is the sole refuge of mortals. He is Infinite Light, Love and Wisdom. He resides in the hearts of all beings. His Grace is invincible. He is in all. He is the Highest Truth. He is Infinite Bliss. He is the Protector. He is the Preserver. He is the Saviour.
Sivananda
#65. The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.
Cyprian
#66. The lesson of the falling leaves
the leaves believe
such letting go is love
such love is faith
such faith is grace
such grace is god
i agree with the leaves
Lucille Clifton
#67. The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence - it is unshakeable
Thomas Merton
#68. To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.
Stephen Covey
#69. That grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish.
Anne Lamott
#70. Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.
Pope Francis
#71. Christ's death was the result of God's grace; grace is not the result of Christ's death.
Jerry Bridges
#72. Grace is always present. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you
Ramana Maharshi
#73. Grace is that ability; to face adversity and be at ease, to enter into the suffering world and help others without losing yourself in the process. It is to be true to your most essential nature, and produce something good from that. To have grace is as close as we may come to perfection.
Christopher Daniel Mechling
#74. I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land of Opportunity becomes yours again.
David Jeremiah
#75. Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#76. All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless ... For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.
Martin Luther
#77. If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
R.C. Sproul
#78. Grace is a gift. It's always a gift of love, but it usually comes in an unexpected way.
Kimberly Greene Angle
#79. Put God to the test when troubles come. He won't let you down. In the midst of a painful illness, Paul begged God to intervene and take it away. But God replied, "My grace is sufficient for you" (2 Corinthians 12:9). It was sufficient for Paul, and it will be for you.
Billy Graham
#81. There is no straight line to Goodness, to Love, or to God. And thank God, Grace is always retroactive.
Richard Rohr
#82. Grace is thoughtful. It considers a back-story, an upbringing, the entire person, and not just a tiny single slice of their life.
J.S. Park
#83. Grace is the ability to accept change. Be open and supple; the brittle break.
Ethan Hawke
#84. There cannot be a secret Christian. Grace is like ointment hid in the hand; it betrayeth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#85. To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.
John Dryden
#87. May I just give you this word? Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action.
Dallas Willard
#88. Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.
Thomas Guthrie
#89. he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.
John Calvin
#90. God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely.
Joyce Meyer
#92. Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response
Bill Johnson
#93. Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.
Philip Yancey
#94. For sov'reign pow'r reign not alone,
Grace is the partner of the throne;
Thy grace and justice mighty Lord,
Shall well divide our last reward.
Isaac Watts
#95. There's nothing serious in mortality;
All is but toys; renown, and grace, is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.
William Shakespeare
#96. Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we take our attention to that Being, finer than the finest, then we establish ourselves on the level of God's Grace. Immediately we just enjoy. Life is Bliss!
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#97. Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace
grace you can reach for.
Elizabeth Scott
#98. Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes
Martin Luther
#99. I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this 'now' moment where a superficial grace is so available.
Richard Diebenkorn
#100. Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.
Jerry Bridges
