A Few Good Quotes on Grace

By Mayet|2026-10-05T13:30:57-05:00October 8th, 2026|Comments Off on A Few Good Quotes on Grace

October 8, 2026

Having written about grace last time, I thought it would be nice to have a collection of quotes about grace—a small compilation of things others have said about grace.

So here’s a dozen or so quotes on Grace for us to ponder and ruminate on, seeing what further thoughts they bring to mind.

Enjoy!
🥰 🤗 Mayet

A few quotes on Grace

When we open our hearts to each other we allow grace to enter. It is as simple as that.  
     ~Kathleen A. Brehony in Ordinary Grace

There is a power which inspires the heart, enlightens the mind, and sanctifies human character. It is the power of Grace. 
     ~ Paul Brenton quoted in Meditations for People in Crisis

Grace can never be possessed but can only be received afresh again and again. 
     ~ Rudolf Bultmann

Grace is the kindling of the heart and the illumination of the mind. 
     ~ John S. Dunne in The Music of Time 

Community is another source of grace. In community we are meant to grace one another; to be sources of grace; healers by way of grace. 
     ~ Matthew Fox in Confessions

Our own experiences of grace give an inchoate meaning to the stories of our lives. They hint at purposes which exist beyond ourselves. 
     ~ Andrew M. Greeley in God in Popular Culture

In becoming grace, you start from a place of emptiness.  When you empty of expectations, you open to the wonders that happen in moments and nanoseconds of revelation. With God’s grace active in you, nothing can go wrong. Every thought, word and action, when joined with grace, will be formless and serve goodness. 
     ~ Shoni Labowitz in Miraculous Living

Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from your isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there. 
     ~ Anne Lamott in Traveling Mercies

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world. 
     ~ Joanna Macy in Lighting a Candle by Molly Young Brown

Grace overcomes shame, not by uncovering an overlooked cache of excellence in ourselves but simply by accepting us, the whole of us, with no regard to our beauty or our ugliness, our virtue or our vices.  We are accepted wholesale. Accepted with no possibility of being rejected. Accepted once and accepted forever. Accepted at the ultimate depth of our being. 
     ~ Lewis B. Smedes in Shame and Grace

Grace happens to me when I feel a surge of honest joy that makes me glad to be alive in spite of valid reasons for feeling terrible. Grace happens when I accept my wife’s offer to begin again with me in love after I have hurt her. Grace is the gift of feeling sure that our future, even our dying, is going to turn out more splendidly than we dare imagine. Grace is the feeling of hope. 
     ~ Louis B. Smedes in How Can It Be Alright When Everything is All Wrong

Grace is uncontrollable, arbitrary to our senses, apparently unmerited. It’s utterly free, ferociously strong, about as mysterious a thing as you could imagine. First rule of grace: grace rules. 
     ~ Brian Doyle quoted in The Best Spiritual Writing 2001 edited by Philip Zaleski

We think of grace arriving like an ambulance, a just-in-time delivery, an invisible divine cavalry cresting a hill of troubles, a bolt of jazz from the glittering horn of the Creator, but maybe it lives in us… Maybe we’re loaded with grace. Maybe we’re stuffed with the stuff. Maybe it’s stitched into our DNA, a fifth ingredient in the deoxyribonucleic acidic soup. 
     ~ Brian Doyle quoted in The Best Spiritual Writing of 2001 edited by Philip Zaleski

Come, not to discuss the words of others,
But to listen…
For in the sacredness of every moment
Divine Grace is telling you alone 
All that is required.
      ~ Jean Pierre de Caussade quoted in The Inner Treasure by Jonathan Star

Grace, the creative life of God, is always coming, always entering to refresh and enhance our lives. 
     ~ C.S. Lewis quoted in God Hunger by John Kirvan