Quotes about Grace
In this world there is very little harmony between the inner and the outer life. But, if we live according to the will of God, then the time will come when there will be perfect harmony between the inner and the outer life for ever. The outer will be exactly like the inner and the inner exactly like the outer. And by his grace we shall become perfect like our Father in Heaven.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
— St. Augustine
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
— St. Augustine
God has loved us as if there is only one of us
— St. Augustine
Late have I loved thee oh beauty so ancient yet so new
— St. Augustine
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
— St. Augustine
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.
— St. Augustine
Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.
— Francis de Sales
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
spiritual marriage is like rain falling from heaven into a river
— Teresa of Avila
But Our Lady allowed this trouble to befall me for the good of my soul; without it, vanity might have crept into my heart, whereas now I was humbled, and looked at myself with profound contempt. My God, Thou alone knowest all that I suffered.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Down in adoration falling,Lo! the sacred Host we hail;Lo! o'er ancient forms departing,Newer rites of grace prevail;Faith for all defects supplying,Where the feeble senses fail.
— St. Thomas Aquinas