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"Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep."
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"When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this _is_ grace."
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"It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren."
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"It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace."
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"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."
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"Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?"
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"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."
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"We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering."
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"Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us."
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"Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace."
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"God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver."
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"Silence gives the proper grace to women"
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"The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one to the condition where there is no separation between oneself and others"
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"Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring."
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"But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me."
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"I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be! I 'abhor what is evil,' and I would 'cleave to what is good!' - I am not what I hope to be! Soon, soon, I shall put off mortality: and with mortality all sin and imperfection! Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was - a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the Apostle, and acknowledge; By the grace of God, I am what I am!"
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"A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ."
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"Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us."
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"Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy."
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