"The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross."
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"The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us."
"Laughter is carbonated holiness."
"Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place."
"The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him."
"When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace."
"The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails."
"To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace."
"The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good."
"A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants."
"Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
"That’s how we often react when grace comes at us. It’s awkward. God offers us something that’s too good to be true—unearned, unmerited, total forgiveness—and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back."
"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
"I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb."
"DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools."
"The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward."
"You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision."
"Grace is God-given power to live differently."
"Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace."
"But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on."