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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
Grace

"While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name."

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian
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"God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
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"I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb."

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