grace

It takes grace to endure hardtimes

Grace does not make sense. It's not supposed to make sense. Grace cannot be calculated or formulated, earned or even rewarded for a job well done. Grace is a gift, not a salary.

What is God's part and what is man's part? God's part is grace. Man's part is faith.

There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.

I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.

I am thankful to God for the grace of being alive.

No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take over and purge them in that fire that is dark for them, as we will explain.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

Don__ try to live to make an impression on anyone. Accept God__ provision for your life. Don__ live or act beyond the measure of the Grace of Christ upon your life.

Wherever the plan of God takes you, the grace of God will sustain you.

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

GRACE means God does the work. FAITH means I let Him.

God love's in the dark.

There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.

The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of whichher beauty was a part.

We are usually angered when someone insults us, until Divine Grace comes upon us. When we receive Grace, we no longer feel hurt when others insult us but remain quiet and peaceful, as though the insult was not directed at us at all.

Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.