Grace Quotes - Page 29

• After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

  John Nelson Darby

  Exercise, Soul, Feels

  John Nelson Darby (2015). “Collected Writings by John Nelson Darby Volume One: Ecclesiastical”, p.31, Irving Risch

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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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• 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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• I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit to subdue my corruptions, my pride, my evil passions, my inordinate love to the creature. Afflictions soften my hard heart, bring me to my knees, increase faith, increase love, increase humility, increase self-denial. Afflictions make me poor in spirit, and nothing in my own eyes.

  Joseph Williams

  Passion, Heart, Mean

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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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• 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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• 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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• Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love; He ardently desires to unite Himself with it. That is what Holy Communion does

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Soul, Desire

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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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• Christ prayed for those that crucified Him: 'Father, count not this sin against them; they know not what they do.' Archdeacon Stephen prayed for those who stoned him so that the Lord would not judge this sin against them. And so we, if we wish to retain grace, must pray for our enemies. If you do not find pity on a sinner who will suffer in flames, then you do not carry the grace of the Holy Spirit, but rather an evil spirit; and while you yet live, you must free yourself from his clutches through repentance.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Father, Flames, Evil

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• It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on.

  Herbert Harold Read

  Life, Science, May

  Herbert Harold Read (1957). “The Granite Controversy: Geological Addresses Illustrating the Evolution of a Disputant”, London, Murby

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• Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men by whom he was being stoned: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" And we see the result of this prayer in the case of the Apostle, for Paul, who kept the garments of those who were stoning Stephen, not long after became an apostle by the grace of God, having before been a persecutor.

  Ambrose

  Prayer, Men, Names

  St. Ambrose “The Sacred Writings of St. Ambrose”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Humble, Men, Christian Inspirational

  "Gleanings Among the Sheaves, The Right Estimate". Book by Charles Spurgeon,

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• The Savior empowers us with His grace, not because we've earned it, but because He loves us perfectly.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Empowering

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• But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the tree ceases to be an It. . . . Does the tree then have consciousness, similar to our own? I have no experience of that. But thinking that you have brought this off in your own case, must you again divide the indivisible? What I encounter is neither the soul of a tree nor a dryad, but the tree itself.

  Martin Buber

  Thinking, Tree, Soul

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• By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the rains of Krishna consciousness fall, can the fire of material existence be extinguished.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Fall, Rain

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• Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Mercy

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• This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer ours but Christ's; and the righteousness of Christ is not Christ's but ours. He has emptied himself of his righteousness that he might clothe us in it, and fill us with it: and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us from them.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Taken, Evil

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• The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that he decided not to give us what we deserve- that's mercy. In addition, God decided to give us exactly what we didn't deserve- we call that grace.

  Andy Stanley

  Spiritual, Giving, Christianity

  Andy Stanley (2008). “How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .”, p.49, Multnomah

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• Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues; nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Heaven

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• The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

  Samuel Bowers

  Mean, Rights, People

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• How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.

  Rabia Basri

  Gratitude, Blessing, Hands

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• My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Inspiration, Islam, Sin

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• If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they, for the sake of the defamers of the truth, refrain from writing down, speaking, or declaring it to each other? Ah! It would be too impudent to hide the talent which God has given us, we who ought to have the grace to persevere to the end. Amen!

  Marie Dentiere

  Writing, Good Woman, Would Be

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• Believers keep up and maintain their walk with God by secret prayer. The spirit of grace is always accompanied with the spirit of supplication. It is the very breath of the new creature, the fan of the divine life, whereby the spark of holy fire, kindled in the soul by God, is not only kept in, but raised into a flame.

  George Whitefield

  Spiritual, Prayer, Fire

  George Whitefield, G. B. (1829). “The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]”, p.117

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