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Grace Quotes

"Grounded by healthy self-esteem and personal self-worth, this admirable character quality can inspire awe and reverence."

"Grounded by healthy self-esteem and personal self-worth, this admirable character quality can inspire awe and reverence."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Grace, Self-Esteem, Dignity, Truth, Wisdom

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"Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?"

"Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Grace, Regret, Truth, Wisdom

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"...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace."

"...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Grace, Gratitude, Life, Moment

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"I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark."

"I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Grace, Healing, Struggle, Darkness

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"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us."

"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly."

"There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

Grace, Beauty, Character, Perception

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"Grace means suddenly you're in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your own."

"Grace means suddenly you're in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your own."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Grace, Universe, Change, Way

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"Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon."

"Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon."

John Piper, American Clergyman

Grace, Power, Sin, Faith

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"The power of God's grace is a transformed life."

"The power of God's grace is a transformed life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Grace, Power, Inspirational, Truth

3

"A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart-a heart that is astonished at grace."

"A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart-a heart that is astonished at grace."

John Piper, American Clergyman

Grace, Heart, Worship, Faith

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"Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, lives in the now without resisting pain, and accepts the moral sublimity of living in a state of grace."

"Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, lives in the now without resisting pain, and accepts the moral sublimity of living in a state of grace."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Grace, Now, Acceptance, Life

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"Grace is available to us from God, but it is located in our place of work."

"Grace is available to us from God, but it is located in our place of work."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Grace, Work, Location, God

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"Our greatest need is God's grace."

"Our greatest need is God's grace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Grace, God, Needs, Inspirational

3

"The breath of life is unlimited grace."

"The breath of life is unlimited grace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Grace, Breath, Life, Soul

3

"Each day we hold things in our heart, sometimes these things are heavy. Carrying God's grace with us each and every day lightens life's load."

"Each day we hold things in our heart, sometimes these things are heavy. Carrying God's grace with us each and every day lightens life's load."

Ron Baratono, American Poet

Grace, Burden, Faith, Support

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"Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince.""I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the sky.""Yes, Lord Prince.""I've heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger."She smiled. "Yes, Lord Prince.""Does it make it easier?""I don't understand you.""To have beautiful eyes. Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes?"

"Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince.""I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the sky.""Yes, Lord Prince.""I've heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger."She smiled. "Yes, Lord Prince.""Does it make it easier?""I don't understand you.""To have beautiful eyes. Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes?"

Kristin Cashore, American Author

Grace, Burden, Beauty, Power, Identity

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"I am wholly deserving of all the consequences that I will in fact never receive simply because God unashamedly stepped in front of me on the cross, unflinchingly spread His arms so as to completely shield me from the retribution that was mine to bear, and repeatedly took the blows. And I stand entirely unwounded, utterly lost in the fact that the while His body was pummeled and bloodied to death by that which was meant for me and me alone, I have not a scratch."

"I am wholly deserving of all the consequences that I will in fact never receive simply because God unashamedly stepped in front of me on the cross, unflinchingly spread His arms so as to completely shield me from the retribution that was mine to bear, and repeatedly took the blows. And I stand entirely unwounded, utterly lost in the fact that the while His body was pummeled and bloodied to death by that which was meant for me and me alone, I have not a scratch."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Grace, Truth, Faith, Power, Life

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"We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'."

"We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'."

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

Grace, Awakening, Faith, Recognition

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"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so."

"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Grace, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

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"How much is your sincerity, that much will be 'Our' divine grace (krupa). This is the measure of grace."

"How much is your sincerity, that much will be 'Our' divine grace (krupa). This is the measure of grace."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Grace, Sincerity, Truth, Wisdom

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"When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come."

"When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Grace, Victory, Faith, Hope

2

"Without God's grace, we stumble in sin."

"Without God's grace, we stumble in sin."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Grace, Sin, Forgiveness, Faith

2

"Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlightened one], one can become a Gnani [the enlightened one]."

"Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlightened one], one can become a Gnani [the enlightened one]."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Grace, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom, Power

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"The grace of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus."

"The grace of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Grace, God, Faith, Salvation

2

"God does not hide the mistakes of His heroes."

"God does not hide the mistakes of His heroes."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Grace, Mistakes, Heroes, Faith

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"Is there any grace like go and sin no more."

"Is there any grace like go and sin no more."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Grace, Sin, Redemption, Forgiveness

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"Seek grace and manna daily."

"Seek grace and manna daily."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Grace, Truth, Inspirational, Today

1

"You must be wise and act with wisdom."

"You must be wise and act with wisdom."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Grace, Potential, Life, Mission

1

"It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. 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."

"It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. 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."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Grace, Love, Help, Desperation

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"The greatest patient is to wait for God to act."

"The greatest patient is to wait for God to act."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Grace, Inspirational, Truth, Patience

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