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"The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace."
"Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ."
"May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us."
"The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them."
"Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ."
"The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless."
"Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement."
"The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances."
"Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay."
"Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time."
"Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident."
"Divine grace was never slow."
"Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!"
"We do not live by justice, but by grace."
"I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and gratitude."
"It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others."
"Freedom, my friend, can only be found in His grace."
"In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature."
"Grace is God doing for us what we could never do and what we will never deserve."
"Grace is not the freedom to sin; it is the power to live a holy life."
