44 Inspiring Grace Quotes

In the journey of life, grace often acts as a gentle guide, offering us comfort, understanding, and strength during difficult times. Whether it's the grace we extend to ourselves or others, or the divine grace we seek from a higher power, it plays a crucial role in our personal and spiritual growth. Our carefully curated collection of 44 inspiring grace quotes is designed to uplift your spirit and provide a fresh perspective on embracing this powerful, healing force. Let these words of wisdom illuminate your path and inspire you to live with greater compassion and serenity.

1. “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.” - Anonymous

2. “As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.” - Anne Lamott

3. “Sweet Grace amazes meThe way that she can seeBeyond the man I amTo the man that I could beShe's bringing out my bestWhile she covers all the restSome say her love is blindBut I say her love forgetsShe don't like it when I try so hard to impress her‘Cause when I do that, it's a lie that makes her love look the lesserThe truth is I knowI'll never be, I'll never be good enoughI'll never deserve her loveI'll never be, I'll never be good enough for GraceBut she takes me anywayI am the cheatin' kind But she's changing my mindThe way she takes me backThough I fail her every timeShe's got friends who tell her that sheIs much too good for meWell, I've told her that myselfBut she refuses to leaveI'd like to think my strength won her affectionBut the truth is it was my weakness that caught her attentionI'm grateful to knowWhen my tears fall down like rainShe wipes them from my faceShe tells me that I'm lovelyAnd if I am, it's all because of GraceThis love turns my inside outAnd my world upside downGrace is changing me” - Jason Gray

4. “I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.” - W.H. Auden

5. “Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.” - Jerry Bridges

6. “It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.” - Augustine of Hippo

7. “Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.” - Brennan Manning

8. “Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.If you reject the ragamuffin gospel and turn your back on Christianity, do so because you find the answers of Jesus incredible, blasphemous, or hopelessly hopeful.” - Brennan Manning

9. “At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss.” - Brennan Manning

10. “A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this IS grace.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

11. “All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy

12. “Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.” - Matthew Fox

13. “Yes, he said, taking her hand. And now I think I finally understand that old expression - a sight for sore eyes.” - Justin Somper

14. “Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.” - Madeleine L'Engle

15. “Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,Yet Grace must still look so.” - William Shakespeare

16. “It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.” - C. JoyBell C.

17. “Grace under pressure.” - Ernest Hemingway

18. “There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books.” - Maggie Stiefvater

19. “Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way.""Funny name for an aircraft," Grace commented. "Is it after your wife?""My gun."Grace stared at him. "You named your plane after a gun?""It was a very good gun.” - Gordon Korman

20. “Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.” - Thea Harrison

21. “Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.” - Bree Despain

22. “What can you do how much can you give to bring grace and salvation unto even one soul” - Bree Despain

23. “The light of love, the purity of grace,The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole —And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!” - George Gordon Byron

24. “If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.” - Sarah Dunant

25. “I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what he looked like: lithe, gray, yellow-eyed. I would pass back images of my own, of a wolf on the edge of the woods, silent and cautious, watching me. The images, clear as the slender-leaved trees in front of me, made finding him seem urgent, but I didn't know how to begin to look.” - Maggie Stiefvater

26. “She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt worked. Intellectually, he already knew that. It was his emotions that were tripping him up. The tangle of love and memory and what might have been.” - Charles de Lint

27. “Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.” - Aberjhani

28. “You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.” - Maggie Stiefvater

29. “Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.” - C. JoyBell C.

30. “Okay, don't get mad." She pulled out my stake --- or at least something that looked like my stake,only the hilt of it was now covered in bright blue crystals and diamond-like gems."You Bedazzled my stake?""Um ... Surprise," April said, "Just because you're hunting nasty stuff doesn't mean you can't do it in style.” - Bree Despain

31. “Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.” - Swindoll Charles R.

32. “God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace".R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

33. “He was everything I’d ever wanted, and everything I hadn’t even known I needed.” - Alice Clayton

34. “Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.” - Aberjhani

35. “I wish I could just fling myself into bed with you, but I can’t. I don’t want to be used that way and I don’t want to use you! Can’t you understand that?” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

36. “The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen. They are. The question is, when they do happen, how are we going to choose to look at them, contextualize them, and navigate them?” - Jeffrey R. Anderson

37. “With my guitar, I could write my own stories, my own poems, and my own destiny. No one could take away the feelings, the emotions or the truth of my notes. They could hide secrets and provoke images of words that never should be whispered. I could compose the melody of my aching heart and write into it my own happily ever after since no one seemed to think after all my suffering I deserved one. That's okay, I would make my own.” - Christine Zolendz

38. “To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.” - Martin Luther

39. “Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.” - Jack Miller

40. “My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

41. “The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.” - Charles H. Spurgeon

42. “We are all trophies of God’s grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)” - Philip Yancey

43. “The moments you are given are your true wealth. You don't need power, influence, or fame. The sunlight brings the power; the wind carries the influence. And as for fame, well, when you allow yourself to notice all those hands that have made your growth possible, you will also recognize what you have made possible for countless others — and how famous you already are. In this very moment, one of those others may be telling a story about how you helped them grow forward.” - Dawna Markova

44. “Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.” - Abraham Kuyper