2,516 Quotes About Grace

You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)

It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.

To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.

Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!

Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.