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Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.

Grace... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Grace. I held on to that name. If I kept that in my head, I would be OK. Grace. I was shaking, shaking; my skin peeling away. Grace. My bones squeezed, pinched, pressed against my muscles. Grace. Her eyes held me even after I stopped feeling her fingers gripping my arms. Sam," she said. "Don't go.

Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use instead. I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face. It was almost like he was there.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

Grace cannot forgive unconfessed sin.

Grace cannot wipe out the law of sewing and reaping.

Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.

Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do.

Grace gives without the receiver realizing how great the gift really is.

Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.” Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.

Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens.

Grace and remembrance be to you both.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Grace doesn't cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.

Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.

Grace is a feminine quality.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

Grace is a system of living whereby God blesses us because we are in Jesus Christ, and for no other reason at all.

Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.

Grace? Are you tipsy? (Selena) Maybe just comfortably toasty. Pop tart toasty. (Grace)

Grace Bell lived in Belhaven, North Carolina her entire life, all 100 years of her life. Just a few weeks ago Republicans challenged her voter registration status and tried to remove her from the voter rolls. Now Grace got her voter registration reinstated. And you better believe she`s going to vote. But this 100-year old woman wasn`t alone in being targeted. The list of voters Republicans tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic. That didn`t happen by accident.

Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.

Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.

Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.

Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

[Grace] is given not to make us something other than ourselves but to make us radically ourselves. Grace is given not to implant in us a foreign wisdom but to make us alive to the wisdom that was born with us in our mother’s womb. Grace is given not to lead us into another identity but to reconnect us to the beauty of our deepest identity. And grace is given not that we might find some exterior source of strength but that we might be established again in the deep inner security of our being and in learning to lose ourselves in love for one another to truly find ourselves.

Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.