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We
cannot
get
grace
from gadgets.
J. B. Priestley
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God is spreading grace around in the world like a
five-year-old spreads peanut butter: thickly, sloppily,
eagerly, and if we are in the back shed trying
to stay clean, we
won't even get a taste.
Donna Schafer |
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The moment of grace comes to us in the dynamics of
any situation
we walk into. It is an opportunity that God
sews into the fabric
of a routine situation. It is a chance
to do something creative,
something helpful, something healing,
something that makes one
unmarked spot in the world better off for
our having
been there. We catch it if we are people of
discernment.
Lewis B. Smedes |
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One of the noblest words
in
our language is "grace," defined as
"unearned
blessing." We live by
grace far more
than by
anything else. Accordingly,
I find that the one thing
which I want to put into
practice in my own life
is the conscious and
deliberate
habit of finding someone to thank.
Elton Trueblood
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter
where there is
a void to receive it, and it is grace itself, which
makes this void.
Simone Weil |
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It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been
empty.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Grace is love that cares and
stoops and rescues.
John Stoot |
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This is what I have learned: Within the sorrow,
there is grace.
When we come close to those things that break us
down, we touch
those things that also break us open.
Wayne
Muller
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Grace is when God gives us what we don’t deserve,
and mercy is when God doesn’t give us what we do deserve.
Dan
Roberts
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Grace is but
glory begun,
and glory is but grace perfected.
Jonathan
Edwards
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Grace
strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. . . .
Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our
darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: "You
are accepted."
Paul
Johannes Tillich
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Grace
is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered
into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin.
Grace is
unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.
Thomas Merton
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The grace of God is in my mind shaped like a key,
that comes
from time to time and unlocks the heavy doors.
Donald Swan
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It
is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to
grace,
it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
Saint
Augustine |
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I
would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which
I could function and give as I was meant to give in the eye of
God.
Anne Morrow
Lindbergh |
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The winds of grace are
always blowing,
but you have to raise the sail.
Ramakrishna |
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Grace, the unmerited favor and love from God,
enters our lives when we don't know how we'll get by.
Susan Santucci |
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