Grace Quotes - Page 31

• He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Baby, Grateful, Despair

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• It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.

  Ray Kroc

  Butterfly, Men, Mcdonalds

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• Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Hate, Heart

  William Hazlitt (2006). “Liber Amoris: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• by grace ye are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live worthily of Him, 'we shall also reign together with Him,' provided only we believe . . .

  Polycarp

  Jesus, Believe, Baptism

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• Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.

  Edmund Campion

  Prayer, Cutting, Sacrifice

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• From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of grace, from first to last. He that perishes chooses to perish; but he that is saved is saved because God has chosen to save him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Lasts, Firsts

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.

  Pope Pius XII

  Vision, Impossible, Moments

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• It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth, i.e., living in the state of grace and in the presence of God, either in innocence or in sincere repentance.

  Pope Pius XI

  Church, Needs, Innocence

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• With faith in the merciful Redeemer and His power, potential despair turns to hope. One's very heart and desires change, and the once-appealing sin becomes increasingly abhorrent. A resolve to abandon and forsake the sin and to repair, as fully as one possibly can, the damage he or she has caused now forms in that new heart. This resolve soon matures into a covenant of obedience to God. With that covenant in place, the Holy Ghost, the messenger of divine grace, will bring relief and forgiveness.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Heart, Desire, Despair

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• Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Success, Math, Two

  "Mathematical Circles Squared". Book by Howard W. Eves, 1972.

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• The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.

  William Bernard Ullathorne

  Burdens Of Life, Life Is, God Love

  William Bernard Ullathorne (1998). “Patience and Humility: A Handbook for Christians”, p.19, Sophia Institute Press

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• To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Able, Persons, Contrary

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1588, Moody Publishers

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• A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next 6 months, nor can he inhale sufficient air into his lungs with one breath to sustain life for a week to come. We are permitted to draw upon God's store of grace from day to day as we need it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Air, Needs

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• 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

  Justice, Thrones, Reign

  Isaac Watts (1776). “The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament: And Applied to the Christian State and Worship. by I. Watts”, p.128

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• Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Kindness, Men

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1975). “The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life”

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• Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Dark, Men, Caves

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.103, Fig

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• A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

  William Ralph Inge

  Spiritual, Men, Impossible

  William Ralph Inge (1934). “Vale”

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• Grace binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty or obligation can bind you. Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver. Like produces like. Grace makes you gracious, the Giver makes you give.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Giving, Forever, Stronger

  E. Stanley Jones (1984). “The way: 364 adventures in daily living”

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• Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Church, Energy

  Evelyn Underhill (1989). “The Fruits of the Spirit”, p.24, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?

  Henry Francis Lyte

  Needs, Hours, Passing

  Henry Francis Lyte (1850). “Remains of ... H.F. Lyte. With a memoir by the ed”, p.120

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• Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men, Good Man, Favors

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• No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.

  Stephen Charnock

  Men, Conquer, Christ

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• Grace is not a theology. It is not a subject matter. It is not a doctrine. It is a person, and his name is Jesus. That's the reason the Lord wants you to receive the abundance of grace, for to have the abundance of grace is to have the abundance of Jesus.

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Names, Doctrine

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• Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

  Randy Alcorn

  Awful, Facts, Realizing

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• There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Salvation, Ends

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