Grace Quotes - Page 37

• The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Sympathy, Gossip, Inspire

  Elizabeth Drew (1964). “The Literature of Gossip”

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• The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, And Love, Way

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.45, InterVarsity Press

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• The world keeps turnin'
  It gets merry like a merry go 'round
  It gets cold like a frozen winter
  Well I change like summer fall
  But I know love is all in all
  Seeds we're always sowing
  The grace is always blowing
  We've just got to lift the sail
  And we're bound to hit the shore
  We'll finally calm this storm.

  Trevor Hall

  Summer, Christian, Fall

  Song: The World Keeps Turning

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• The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, People, Giving

  Billy Graham (2011). “Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well”, p.91, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Humility, Appreciate

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.9, Moody Publishers

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• Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Thank God, Doe

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• Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to it, and helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces, — self-denial, readiness to the cross, — they all work and help faith. But when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do.

  John Owen

  Leadership, Spiritual, Self

  "The Works of John Owen".

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• I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.

  James W. Fowler

  Faith, Believe, People

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• Suffering is seldom an item on our list of requests to the Lord. But when it crosses our path and we are able by his grace to keep on walking, our lives become messages of hope to the world and to the church.

  Sheila Walsh

  Hope, Encouragement, Suffering

  Sheila Walsh (1999). “Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times”, p.1957, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable, yet not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying, yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.

  Frederick William Faber

  Kindness, Men, Self

  "Spiritual conferences".

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• Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.

  Tamba Hali

  God, Mother, Three

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• Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Courage, Heart, Holiness

  Verses (1910) "Courtesy"

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• Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Art, Eye

  Epicene act 1, sc. 1 (1609)

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• Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency to descend, and flows with great readiness. It is this the Holy Scripture has in view when it says, "And the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Water, then, is the most beautiful element and rich in usefulness, and purifies from all filth, and not only from the filth of the body but from that of the soul, if it should have received the grace of the Spirit.

  John of Damascus

  Beautiful, Should Have, Four Elements

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• I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, for half an hour before sunset, till near dark, that I was all over wet with sweat: but yet is seemed to me that I had wasted away the day, and had done nothing. Oh!, my dear Savior did sweat blood for poor souls!

  David Brainerd

  Children, Sunset, Dark

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.65

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• There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and naturally and you will open the door to a sacred intent. With this sacred intent, love making becomes spiritual and holy. You open the gateway to total joy and you embrace the divine, erotic impulse. So breathe and relax. This is tantra.

  Janet Robertson

  Spiritual, Doors, Joy

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• Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

  Anna Paskevska

  Dance, Children, Discipline

  Anna Paskevska (2013). “Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course”, p.6, Routledge

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• The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Knowing, Doors

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• I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.

  Joe Tye

  Adversity, Compassion, Choices

  Joe Tye (1997). “Never Fear, Never Quit: A Story of Courage and Perseverance”

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• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

  Plato

  Plato, Character, Mean

  Plato (2013). “The Republic: A Socratic Dialogue Concerning the Definition of Justice and the Order and Character of the Just City-State and the Just Man (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.322, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Book, Humility

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• For he who has died has been freed from sin...14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

  Paul the Apostle

  Law, Over You, Dominion

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• For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

  Paul the Apostle

  Life Is, Sin, Christ

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• As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third day after their birth, that the old law of circumcision must be taken into consideration, and that you did not think that one should be baptized and sanctified within the eighth day after his birth. In our council it seemed to us far otherwise. No one agreed to the course which you thought should be taken. Rather, we all judge that the mercy and grace of God ought to be denied to no man born

  Cyprian

  Taken, Men, Thinking

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• If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another

  Cyprian

  Believe, Baptism, Doe

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