Quotes about grace
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“When Divine providence graces you, and you are endowed with passion of love and alienated from your ego, at that time Divine love enters your inmost being and He shows His Beauty to you.”

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 270

Love, Beauty, Passion, Time

“Those who translate Pistis by "Faith," are utterly wrong. The word "faith" as grace or something to be believed in through unreasoned or blind faith, is a word that dates only since Christianity.”

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky book The Key to Theosophy

Source: The Key to Theosophy (1889)

Faith

“We have to also realise that celibacy itself is not an easy life and I think anyone who tells you it's an easy life, will not be truthful. Celibacy is not an easy life but is a life that is worth living with the grace of God.”

Robert Ndlovu (1955) Archbishop of Harare

Source: ‘Pius Ncube now living a life of prayer’ https://thestandard.newsday.co.zw/2012/08/05/pius-ncube-now-living-a-life-of-prayer/ (5 August 2012)

Life, God, Truth, Thinking

“When possible, children should be comfortable and free when they are playing or studying, and it is the way in a civilized country to make them more comfortable by not being too strict and giving grace and love at the same time.”

Syngman Rhee (1875–1965) first president of South Korea (1875-1965)

Source: Speech at the first anniversary of the founding of Seoul Board of Education (2 October 1957)

Love, Children, Way, Study

“We are grateful to God for His large grace and mercy to the people. At the same time we ask all people of good will to pray for the successful building of the church, because we know very well that when the Lord does not build a house, builders work in vain.”

Vasyl Ivasyuk (1960)

Source: In Kirovohrad foundation stone of church was blessed http://news.ugcc.ua/en/news/in_kirovohrad_foundation_stone_of_church_was_blessed_57087.html (30 November 2009)

God, People, Time, Success

“Because we cannot by ourselves give sufficient thanks to God, our creator, for the grace, honour, health and success that He has granted us thus far, nor amass sufficient merit to secure the continuation of His grace in the future… to beseech God to continue to raise us in virtue and good customs, to govern our dominions and subjects in peace, union and concord, and to guide our affairs to His honour, our wellbeing, and the prosperity, utility and tranquility of our said dominions and subjects.”

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Holy Roman Emperor

God, Health, Peace, Success

“Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it. God can give the end without any means at all; but you have no reason to think He will. Therefore constantly and carefully use all those means which He has appointed to be the ordinary channels of His grace. Use every means which either reason or Scripture recommends, as conducive (through the free love of God in Christ) either to the obtaining or increasing any of the gifts of God. Thus expect a daily growth in that pure and holy religion which the world always did, and always will, call “enthusiasm;” but which, to all who are saved from real enthusiasm, from merely nominal Christianity, is “the wisdom of God, and the power of God;” the glorious image of the Most High; “righteousness and peace;” a “fountain of living water, springing up into everlasting life!””

John Wesley book Sermons on Several Occasions

1770s, Sermons on Several Occasions (1771)
Source: Sermon 37 "The Nature of Enthusiasm"

Love, Life, Wisdom, God

“This is the dialectic of Christian thought: God enters into the social context of human existence and appropriates the ideas and actions of the oppressed as his own. When this event of liberation occurs in thought and praxis, the words and actions of the oppressed become the Word and Action of God. They no longer belong to the oppressed. Indeed, the word of the oppressed becomes God’s Word insofar as the former recognize it not as their own but as given to them through divine grace.”

James H. Cone (1938–2018) American theologian

Source: God of the Oppressed (1975, 1997), p. 98-99 (1975 edition)

God, Idea

“Don’t kid yourself: The pain and scars from that day run deep.
I said it many times and it’s no more true or real than when we think about the events of January 6th: We are in a battle for the soul of America. A battle that, by the grace of God and the goodness and gracious — and greatness of this nation, we will win.
Believe me, I know how difficult democracy is. And I’m crystal clear about the threats America faces. But I also know that our darkest days can lead to light and hope.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Source: 2022, Remarks to Mark One Year Since The January 6th Deadly Assault On The U.S. Capitol (2022)

God, Pain, Hope, Democracy

“The clouds, never expect it,
When it rains
But the sea changes color,
But the sea does not change,
, And so with the slow graceful
Flow of age, I went forth with an,
Age old desire to please,
On the edge of seventeen.”

Stevie Nicks (1948) American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac

Edge of Seventeen
Bella Donna (album) (1981)

Age, Color, Change, Sea

“She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she’s not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as my Lady when she strides through Paris!”

Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) French writer

Source: Cyrano de Bergerac

Love, Men, Smile, Beauty

“When grace comes, all the schemes of the evil one cease, for it abolishes them. It comes like a gentle breeze, like a subtle, fragrant zephyr which deadens the flesh and then raises the soul. It enlightens our nous. And in the end, when it comes, grace itself teaches a person.”

Joseph the Hesychast (1897–1959) Greek Orthodox Christian Athonite monk

Letter 55
Monastic Wisdom (2016)

Soul, Evil, Personality

“If we are short of grace and lack the wisdom to handle a particular situation, we may need to be silent. But we must never be political.”

Witness Lee (1905–1997) Chinese Christian preacher

Life-Study of Galatians, message 6, section 1, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 0-7363-0961-6

Wisdom

“Without a divine call no one can be saved. We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God, unless He first called us by His grace.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Mark II: 13–22, p. 31
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)

God, World, Wedding

“The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Vol. II, Luke XIX: 1–10, p. 294
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858–1859)

Hate, Heart, Christ

“A hopeful growing believer is a walking sermon. He preaches far more than I do, for he preaches all the week round, shaming the unconverted, sharpening the converted, showing to all what grace can do.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

"Where Art Thou?", p. 40
Startling Questions (1853)

Hope

“We should not see a Hansenite or a disabled person as a curse or burden. For us Christians, they are the grace and blessing of God, because they reflect the image of Christ.”

Eduardus Sangsun (1943–2008) Indonesian bishop (1943-2008)

Rehabilitation Clinic for Hansenites, Disabled Opens Seashore Park https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/1997/07/24/rehabilitation-clinic-for-hansenites-disabled-opens-seashore-park&post_id=9812 (24 July 1997)

God, Christ, Personality