"For the mighty, even to give away is grace."
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"The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance."
"Sacrifice to the Graces."
"Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification."
"You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness."
"The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross."
"Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God."
"For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible."
"If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now."
"There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!"
"I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America."
"Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there."
"The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!"
"O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell"
"Angels and ministers of grace defend us."
"Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing."
"Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces"
"For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have."
"Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy."
"Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul."