Favorite Quotations ~  Grace, 2 Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

"We cannot get grace from gadgets." ~ J. B. Priestley

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself, which makes this void. ~ Simone Weil

Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. ~ Thomas Merton

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. ~ Jonathan Edwards

You are so weak: Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Learn to...be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

For the mighty, even to give away is grace. ~ Aeschylus

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labor for. ~ Thomas More

Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It ’s a way to live. ~ Jackie Windspear

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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