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"We should pray to be reconciled with God in everything so we can get grace to react in a godly way. Then you will be content with the way God does things for you in your life. If you are satisfied, you are satisfied, regardless of whether you are healthy, free, and active, or are limited in some way."
"Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for."
"When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty."
"Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee."
"The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man’s quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness."
"It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market."
"Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew."
"The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ."
"We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace."
"God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross."
"Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace."
"The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it."
"The proclamation of grace has its limits. Grace may not be proclaimed to anyone who does not recognize or distinguish or desire it... The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it, and it will not only trample upon the Holy, but also will tear apart those who force it on them."
"Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces."
"Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either."
"I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace."
"How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?"
"I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone."
"God's grace, quite simply, is God's mercy and goodness toward us."
"L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace."
