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"Conversion is not only changing the faith. Conversion is changing the heart and working over there is the grace of God. Then only comes the question of change of faith. Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets."
"The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don’t betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword."
"For me, every hour is grace."
"Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me."
"If it weren't for God's grace, you and I wouldn't be able to live for even one more minute."
"We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success."
"Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given."
"But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine."
"Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking."
"Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it."
"The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes."
"The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you."
"Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future."
"Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again."
"Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know."
"A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation."
"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."
"I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said."
"The way of grace is dependent, I cannot but He can."
"Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin to ask whom heaven by grace inspires, even this minute portion of praise must not be withheld from Him. It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed under His guidance and government."
