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Grace Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- 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…
- Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy…
- Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
- Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about…
- To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
- Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
- The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
- Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement…
- What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.…
- He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times…
- Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's…
- 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…
More Grace Quotes
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- We need to gather everyone we can. Damien scoffed. Uh, boss, hate to be a pall, but I think everyone we can… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus
- He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he… — William Makepeace Thackeray
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila