Top 79 Grace Lee Quotes
#1. It's hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you've failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.
Lee Strobel
#2. We can never sink so far that God's grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights.
Lee Strobel
#3. We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.
Christopher Lee
#4. I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.
Grace Lee Boggs
#5. If anyone had a right to lecture people about their sin, it was the sinless son of God. If even he could meet sinners as equals, how much more should we Christians
all sinners ourselves
treat as equals the people we encounter in our lives?
Justin Lee
#6. I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make among ourselves in order to force the government to do differently. Things do not start with governments.
Grace Lee Boggs
#7. We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.
Grace Lee Boggs
#8. I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at the beginning of World War II, when they had started the "Double V for Victory" movement - for democracy at home as well as abroad.
Grace Lee Boggs
#9. The body is not a task to be completed but a gift we receive from God himself.
Matthew Lee Anderson
#10. I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.
Grace Lee Boggs
#11. This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.
Grace Lee Boggs
#12. A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.
Grace Lee Boggs
#13. The main reason why Western civilization lacks Spirituality, or an awareness of our interconnectedness with one another and the universe, according to Gandhi, is that it has given priority to economic and technological development over human and community development.
Grace Lee Boggs
#14. People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution.
Grace Lee Boggs
#15. We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.
Grace Lee Boggs
#16. The physical threat posed by climate change represents a crisis that is not only material but also profoundly spiritual at its core because it challenges us to think seriously about the future of the human race and what it means to be a human being.
Grace Lee Boggs
#17. Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.
Grace Lee Boggs
#18. while grace sets apart Christianity, so does truth. Jesus was filled with grace and truth, and in Christianity you can know the truth, not just through some sort of spiritual experience, but also through careful investigation.
Lee Strobel
#19. Life is a gift. The Lord never promised any of us permanent happiness on earth. But - and here's the saving grace - he will give us the strength we need to keep on going if we ask him.
Paige Lee Elliston
#20. The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.
Grace Lee Boggs
#21. To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings. In order to change/ transform the world, they must change/ transform themselves.
Grace Lee Boggs
#22. When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea of an Asian American movement or an Asian American thrust in this country was unthinkable.
Grace Lee Boggs
#23. It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.
Grace Lee Boggs
#24. I think Detroit is already providing a model for change in the world. I think that Detroit - I mean, people come from all over the world come to see what we're doing. People are looking for a new way of living.
Grace Lee Boggs
#25. I have learned to savor every minute of time with my four year old daughter not only because I know how quickly children grow up but also because I have no idea what state the world will be in when she is my age.
Grace Lee Boggs
#26. Her Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, had a lamp shade on her head. Again.
Y.S. Lee
#27. A woman may be a mother, a sister, a business woman, or she may own a business. Woman do many things, and it is important that we do it with grace and style.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#28. Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society. Going beyond protest organizing, visionary organizing begins by creating images and stories of the future that help us imagine and create alternatives to the existing system.
Grace Lee Boggs
#29. When I told the fans I was an alcoholic, they all applauded. When I told them I had given myself to a higher power, they cheered again.
Grace Lee Whitney
#30. We have to understand that the closer you get to the corridors of power, to the Oval Office and Congress, the more you become a prisoner of the past .The closer you get to the marginalized, the grassroots and the groundlings, the greater your incentive to think imaginatively and 'outside the box.
Team Colors Collective
#31. I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.
Grace Lee Boggs
#33. My life is happy, joyous, free, sober and saved, and a lot of fun, too. I have a lot of fun.
Grace Lee Whitney
#34. The Pharisees lacked - and what we Christians have all too often lacked - is grace. We must never let our theological disagreements get in the way of showing God's unconditional, overpowering grace to everyone we meet.
Justin Lee
#36. Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that you don't gather very much by making enemies out of people and not recognizing their humanity. Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.
Grace Lee Boggs
#38. You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.
Grace Lee Boggs
#39. Amazing grace how sweet thuh sound That saved a wretch like me; I once was lost but now I'm found, Was blind, but now I see. A-men." Jem
Harper Lee
#40. America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shinning sea!
Katharine Lee Bates
#41. Whatever mistakes her son might make in life, Cindy was sure God would have mercy on him. The church, she feared, might not.
Justin Lee
#42. That is the joyful task of every follower of Jesus. Someday may it be written about me on my tombstone: He was so amazed by God's grace that he couldn't keep it to himself.
Lee Strobel
#43. We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it's never a question of 'critical mass.' It's always about critical connections.
Grace Lee Boggs
#44. History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.
Grace Lee Boggs
#46. I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.
Grace Lee Boggs
#48. How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?
Grace Lee Boggs
#49. When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air and it came down, it would hit an autoworker because the Chrysler Jefferson plant where my husband worked was very close also to where we lived.
Grace Lee Boggs
#50. All we needed when we first came to Jesus was his grace, and grace is all we need to grow in Christ. Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.
Lee Strobel
#51. 0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Katharine Lee Bates
#52. Christianity is different, first, because of grace; second, because it's testable; and third, because it paints a picture that matches the way the world is, in a way that other religions don't.
Lee Strobel
#53. A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.
Grace Lee Boggs
#54. Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.
Spike Lee
#55. But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.
Mel Tillis
#56. I had no idea what I was gonna do after I got my degree in philosophy in 1940. But what I did know was at that time, if you were a Chinese-American, even department stores wouldn't hire you. They'd come right out and say, 'We don't hire Orientals.'
Grace Lee Boggs
#57. We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because we have not heard the cry for help by young people in 1967.
Grace Lee Boggs
#58. Well, I would say that we've got to redefine democracy, that we have been stuck in concepts of representative democracy, that we believe that it's getting other people to do things for us that we progress.
Grace Lee Boggs
#59. Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.
Grace Lee Boggs
#60. I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We have a scenario of revolution that first, you know, comes from 1917, that first you take the state power, and then you change things. And we don't realize it's collapsed.
Grace Lee Boggs
#61. With the end of empire, we are coming to an end of the epoch of rights. We have entered the epoch of responsibilities, which requires new, more socially-minded human beings and new, more participatory and place-based concepts of citizenship and democracy.
Grace Lee Boggs
#62. I think we have to rethink the concept of "leader." 'Cause "leader" implies "follower." And, so many- not so many, but I think we need to appropriate, embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for.
Grace Lee Boggs
#63. I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.
Grace Lee Boggs
#65. I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.
Grace Lee Boggs
#66. It's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking.
Grace Lee Boggs
#67. Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an understanding that you could make a way out of no way, and that's how they survived.
Grace Lee Boggs
#68. Many times we simply cannot stand our situation and we cannot face what is happening to us. However, there is a place called the throne of grace. Come boldly to the throne of grace that you may find mercy and grace for your time of need.
Witness Lee
#69. The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?
Grace Lee Boggs
#70. The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.
Grace Lee Boggs
#71. There are things we can't change, and we just have to accept that. And maybe that's some kind of grace
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#72. We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become so materialistic that we think having a good job, and consuming like crazy to compensate for the dehumanization of the job, is living like a human being.
Grace Lee Boggs
#73. Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.
Grace Lee Boggs
#74. Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after
Grace Lee Boggs
#75. Don't get stuck in old ideas. Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change.
Grace Lee Boggs
#76. Some people are afraid of gentrification, but what I see is young people want to live in a different world. And they see possibilities here. They see that rents are relatively cheap compared to places like New York and California.
Grace Lee Boggs
#77. I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
Nancy Grace
#78. You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be. And you do choose how you think.
Grace Lee Boggs
#79. When the Bible says God loves the world, it doesn't footnote any exceptions. God's grace is inexhaustible.
Lee Strobel
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