quotations about grace
According to the Christian tradition, grace is not earned. Grace is not merited. It's not something we deserve. Rather, grace is the free and benevolent favor of God as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings.
BARACK OBAMA
Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney at College of Charleston, South Carolina, June 26, 2015
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
By God's grace the most abject of His creatures may rise to a rank of celestial force.
MME. SWETCHINE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Neither race nor place makes a man, but grace.
C. V. T. GALLUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms