Grace. Unmerited favor from God.
I love to collect quotes from wise people. Below are some of my favorite quotes about Grace.
- Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
- Grace doesn’t depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
― - The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.
―Joseph Prince - I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
―Anne Lamott
- Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.
― C. JoyBell C. - You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.
― Charles Portis - The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.
― Frederick Buechner
- 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 - Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O’Neil - Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.
– Jerry Bridges
- It’s not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.
― C. JoyBell C. - Grace releases and affirms. It doesn’t smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn’t destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn’t jealous or suspicious.
– Charles Swindoll
- Grace is the love that gives, that loves the unlovely and the unlovable.
– Oswald C. Hoffmann - Much of the stress in our lives comes as a result of our insistence on maintaining the illusion of control. We so desperately want to be strong enough to handle the trials and tribulations of life that we literally drive ourselves into the ground rather than admit our desperate need. Often God allows us to reach the breaking point for our own good. Only in those moments of rare clarity that come from bottoming out will we allow ourselves to admit how little control we actually have. In those moments, the only thing we can do is throw ourselves headlong into the grace of God. In these moments, the pain and suffering actually drive us to him.
― Kenneth Boa - Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come;
‘Tis grace has brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home.
– John Newton
These are some of my favorite quotes on Grace and though I have barely exhausted them all,
let me end on this note;
as a community and as individuals, let us extend grace even when others do not.
As always,
Hang onto Hope.
Naks.
