Quotes on Grace

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

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

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

I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.

Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.

All writing comes by the grace of God.

For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness of grace and truth. He raises the level of morals, fosters virtue, comforts the sorrowful, strengthens the weak and stirs up all those who draw near to Him to imitate Him, so that they may learn from his example to be meek and humble of heart, and to seek not their own interests but those of God.

He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the Blessed Sacrament. Every one who has had anything to do with ministering to souls has seen the power which Jesus has. Talent is not needed. Eloquence is comparatively unattractive. Learning is often beside the mark. Controversy simply repels... All the attraction of the Church is in Jesus, and His chief attraction is the Blessed Sacrament

Believers keep up and maintain their walk with God by secret prayer. The spirit of grace is always accompanied with the spirit of supplication. It is the very breath of the new creature, the fan of the divine life, whereby the spark of holy fire, kindled in the soul by God, is not only kept in, but raised into a flame.

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent

We should die relying on grace alone

A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When an ignorant person laughs, his laughter is very aggressive, egoistic. The ignorant person always laughs at others. The contented person, the person who knows life a little, laughs at himself - at the whole play of life itself. It is not addressed to anybody in particular. He just laughs at the absurdity of it all... the impossibility of it all.