One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help." Nor must we search for signs of "loveworthiness." Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
- What once was hurt
- What once was friction
- What left a mark
- No longer stings
- Because Grace makes beauty
- Out of ugly things
Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret, as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord; but, even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened. They take God's ticket to heaven, and then put their baggage on their shoulders, and tramp, tramp, the whole way there afoot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Life Thoughts
Grace in women is the secret charm that draws the soul into its circle and binds a spell round it forever.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Grace is only nature blossomed out; nature won and warmed into its true growth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Let grace conduct thee to the paths of peace.
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
