There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ.

I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and gratitude.

When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

We had a gay marriage on 'Will & Grace' in 2000, 2001. And I was like, 'Gay marriage?' I mean, it was just really early.

My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic.

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.

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

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

A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

I have to be so thankful. I have two kids, my beautiful wife, I'm just blown away at God's grace and God's faithfulness.

I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Married couples, may we never forget that when attacks come the grace of the sacrament is eternally stronger than we are.

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.

The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.

During 'Will & Grace,' we had so many things we had to go to where you get all dolled up. It's like pulling teeth for me.

Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them

I always felt you could age with style and grace, or you could age in denial and hold on to issues and never push through.

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

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