Quotes on Grace

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

In the many trials of life, when we feel abandoned and when sorrow, sin, disappointment, failure, and weakness make us less than we should ever be, there can come the healing salve of the unreserved love in the grace of God. It is a love that lifts and blesses. It is a love that sustains a new beginning on a higher level and thereby continues "from grace to grace."

The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.

The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

And I will go as far as Martin Luther, in that strong assertion of his, where he says, "If any man ascribes any of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ aright."

Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'

America! America!_x000D_ _x000D_ God shed His grace on thee_x000D_ _x000D_ And crown thy good with brotherhood_x000D_ _x000D_ From sea to shinning sea!

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

What is a fine person or a beauteous face,_x000D_ _x000D_ Unless deportment give them decent grace;_x000D_ _x000D_ Blessed with all other requisites to please,_x000D_ _x000D_ To want the striking elegance of ease;_x000D_ _x000D_ Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill_x000D_ _x000D_ Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy any recipe for salvation as long as that formula leaves the responsibility for cooking up salvation firmly in human hands. The world is drowning in religion. But it is scared out of its wits by any mention of the grace that takes the world home gratis.

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,_x000D_ _x000D_ And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.