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"All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing."
"Gardening is an instrument of grace."
"Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world."
"The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received."
"Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him."
"Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained."
"I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply."
"God doesn't owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things."
"Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking."
"Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance"
"If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible."
"It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud."
"The law detects, grace alone conquers sin."
"What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know."
"Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it."
"The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it."
"True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques."
"Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives."
"Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace."
"Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow."
