These grace quotes will inspire you. Grace, elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action or courteous goodwill.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging grace quotes, grace sayings, and grace proverbs.
Best Grace Quotes
- “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
- “Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.” ~ Max Lucado
- “Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.” ~ Jerry Bridges , God grace quotes
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“We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.” ~ Billy Graham
- “Believe the best about people. Pray for their shortcomings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.” ~ LeCrae , Grace quotes prayer
- “Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better” ~ Caroline Myss
- “Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to everyone in need of help.” ~ Caroline Myss
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“In the New Testament grace means God’s love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves.” ~ J. I. Packer
- “The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.” ~ Frederick Buechner
- “Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.” ~ Oswald Chambers
- “Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.” ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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“Courage is grace under pressure.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
- “God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.” ~ Max Lucado
- “Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God’s grace.” ~ Martin Luther
- “Grace is ever-present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” ~ Denis Waitley
- “To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us – and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude, therefore, takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.” ~ Thomas Merton
- “We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.” ~ Timothy Keller
- “Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace.” ~ Rumi
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“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.” ~ Eugene O’Neill
- “A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Love is the crowning grace of humanity.” ~ Petrarch
- “Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.” ~ Martin Luther
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“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.” ~ Aeschylus
- “Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne with your ill manners and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the ‘sensual pleasures of Egypt!’ Think of how the Lord’s grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Today, let’s set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we’re not. Let’s cut the threads of guilt with grace.” ~ Lysa TerKeurst
- “It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side, and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.” ~ Brennan Manning
- “The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: ‘grace.'” ~ Max Lucado
- “Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!” ~ Martin Luther
- “Grace is something you can never get but only be given.” ~ Frederick Buechner
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“Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.” ~ Martin Luther
- “Be watchful – the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.” ~ Rumi
- “”Otherwise grace is no more grace,” since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.” ~ Saint Augustine
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“Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.” ~ Rumi
- “Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.” ~ Francis Beaumont
- “Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.” ~ C. I. Scofield
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“Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.” ~ Martin Luther
- “Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.” ~ John Stott
- “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” ~ May Sarton
- “Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available when we become openhearted and open-minded and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.” ~ Adyashanti
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“God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
- “Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.” ~ Jonathan Edwards
- “Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.” ~ Og Mandino , Grace quotes & strength
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“You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it.” ~ Mary Oliver
- “The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.” ~ Francis of Assisi
- “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.” ~ Edward Everett Hale
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“Grace is available for each of us every day – our spiritual daily bread – but we’ve got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.” ~ Karl Barth
- “Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.” ~ Karl Rahner
- “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.” ~ Flannery O’Connor
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“For me, every hour is grace.” ~ Elie Wiesel
- “Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.” ~ George Santayana
- “We cannot get grace from gadgets.” ~ J. B. Priestley
- “Make sure that you let God’s grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God’s work with a smile.” ~ Mother Teresa
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“Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.” ~ B. B. Warfield
- “Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .” ~ Saint Augustine
- “Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.” ~ Caroline Myss
- “Once more, never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.” ~ David Brainerd
- “When despair for the world grows in me…
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light.
For a time I rest in the grace of the world,
and am free.” ~ Wendell Berry - “I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher