Grace Quotes - Page 20

• The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

  John Owen

  Heaven, Privilege, Wealth

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• We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own

  Barack Obama

  Buddhist, Atheist, Mind Blowing

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• I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we carry ourselves with grace and dignity and try our best - even when we fall on our faces, as will happen sometimes - then I think people will see that. And that will be the message of sport and the Olympics.

  Joey Cheek

  Sports, Fall, Thinking

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• America! America!
  God shed His grace on thee
  And crown thy good with brotherhood
  From sea to shinning sea!

  Katharine Lee Bates

  4th Of July, Sea, America

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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• In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at his command. "What happens when you do wrong?" his brother asks. "When I do wrong, someone else is punished," the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten. In Christian theology, Jesus reversed that ancient pattern: when the servants erred, the King was punished. Grace is free only because the giver himself has borned the cost.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Religious, Brother

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• Ye [Anabaptists] be proud contemners of the free grace of God offered to man in Christ Jesus. For with the Pelagians and Papists ye are become teachers of free will, and defenders of your own righteousness

  John Knox

  Teacher, Jesus, Men

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• Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Monsters, Doe

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• The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

  Thomas More

  Encouragement, Giving, Praying

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• After her came jolly June, arrayed
  All in green leaves, as he a player were;
  Yet in his time he wrought as well as played,
  That by his plough-irons mote right well appear.
  Upon a crab he rode, that did him bear,
  With crooked crawling steps, an uncouth pace,
  And backward rode, as bargemen wont to fare,
  Bending their force contrary to their face;
  Like that ungracious crew which feigns demurest grace.

  Edmund Spenser

  Spring, Player, June

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• Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

  John Angell James

  World, Affliction, Affection

  John Angell James (1841). “The widow directed to the widow's God”, p.117

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• The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

  Jennifer James

  Optimistic, Quality, Culture

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?

  Jennifer James

  Children, Optimistic, Views

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• To those who help me, I repay them with grace. But to those who don't, I repay them with exactly what I've received. That's my motto. Only then the world will be balanced.

  Kim Joon

  Drama, World, Helping

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• Develop a capacity for things like purpose, love, wonder, courage, and grace.

  John Jantsch

  Inspirational, Purpose, Wonder

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• Consider the generosity of our Savior: what He acquired by dying becomes ours by eating. As often as we receive this Sacrament with proper dispositions, we make our own the fruits of all the labors, injuries and sufferings of His life, especially those borne at the time of His passion and death. Just as the power and the sensations of the head reach all the members of the body, in the same way, because Christ is "the head of the Church which is His Body" (Eph. 1:23), the treasures of His grace are made abundantly available to all who through charity are one with Him as living members.

  Louis of Granada

  Passion, Generosity, Suffering

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• Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly.

  Takashi Nagai

  Fate, Destiny, Goes On

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• My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of pity and love, awaiting, calling, and receiving all who come to visit You; I believe that You are present in the Sacrament of the Altar; I adore You from the depths of my own nothingness; I thank You for the many graces You have given me, and especially for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

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• To the humble, the Lord has given this promise: "If men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Strong, Humility, Humble

  "Come unto Christ".

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• For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted by the like danger.... so those who are besieged and assaulted by their spiritual enemies will ever after more carefully arm themselves against them with the graces of God's Spirit, that they may not be overcome nor foiled by them.

  George Downame

  Spiritual, Strong, Prayer

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• O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our wounds, our comforter when we are overburdened, the memorial of Jesus Christ, the proof of his love, the most precious precept of his testament, our companion in the pilgrimage of life, the joy sustaining us in our exile, the burning coal kindling the fire of divine love, the instrument of grace, the pledge of eternal bliss and the treasure of Christians

  Louis of Granada

  Christian, Jesus, Healing

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• In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.

  Aberjhani

  Inspirational, Religious, Nature

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• we grant evil freewill (or freewill to evil) is remaining in all natural men: we believe that freewill to good, is from grace and regeneration.

  Henry Ainsworth

  Believe, Men, Evil

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• God's grace always assists those who struggle, but this does not mean that a struggler is always in the position of a victor. Sometimes in the arena the wild animals did not touch the righteous ones, but by no means were they all preserved untouched.

  John of Shanghai and San Francisco

  Struggle, Mean, Humility

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• It is by means of these that we attain perfect love, through the grace and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory through all the ages. Amen.

  John Cassian

  Jesus, Mean, Humility

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• His great act of condescension in becoming man and His willingness to be completely humiliated in the death on the cross is set before us here as the supreme example of what our attitude should be. If Jesus Christ the Lord of glory was willing to be obedient unto death, how much more should sinners saved by grace who owe everything to God give back to the God who saved them the life which He has redeemed.

  John F Walvoord

  Jesus, Attitude, Men

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