*GRACE - also see GIFT, OWN, CONTENT, PROTECTION, LOVE, WORSHIP, SALVATION
Grace is an unmerited gift. (Dict)
Jesus speaks to the individual who wants to find God as a personal experience, to attain what some might call grace, or God-consciousness [or Christ-consciousness], or enlightenment. (http://www.chopra.com/thirdjesus)
We're not all alone, but have some kind of protection in the form of God's grace. (Further, p187)
My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness. (2 Cor 12:9)
When God gives Himself to the devotee, He has given oneness with Spirit in which the mystery of life is no more. Vanished is the duality of the multiplicity in the Indivisuble Unity in the devotee's awakening - with realization that all things are of God. (2nd Coming, Vol 1, p529)
After contemplating that "grace" was like the reciprol of love in a marriage, I got an email from my son with a dark message. After not being able to reach him for a couple of hours I called 911, the Police went in, had him call me, and confiscated a pot pipe and 2 straws for testing. My son was scarred straight waiting for the results which turned out negative. The lord works in mysterious and miraclous ways. (Randy, 9/8/08)
To Eckhart, the birth of God in the soul is an experience of God that we can't produce on own own - it is grace. The more one seeks God, the less one finds him. You should seek him in a way that you find him nowhere. Let go and be ready for grace. When we become empty, then there is room for God. (Meaning, p102-3)
Thomas Kempis said" "If you knew the whole Bible by heart annd all the teachings of the philosophers, how would this help you without the grace and love of God? (History, p272)
God's grace is the gospel, the good news that He is love and forgives us, of Jesus who taught and showed us that, and that of our salvation.
If you open yourself to the possibility of receiving Divine Revelation and be connected with Spirit, you may experience something totally new, exhilarating, and miraculous. But you must allow yourself to go inside and receive the gifts that Spirit has for you. (Divine Rev, p244)
From Genesis we should know not to build our spiritually not only on the Fall (sin) but also on Creation (grace). (SRC 12/12/96) [For example, we should not only try to be pure and obedient, but also worship God for giving grace by appreciating the gifts He gives us. (Randy)]
When you pray for God's grace, you are like someone standing neck-deep in water and yet crying for water. (Wisdom, Hinduism, p48)
Grace is a unmerited gift from God. (Fr. Gantley)
Where sin increased, grace abounded all of the more (Rom 5:20)
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast. (Eph 2:8-9)
So that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:6)
Have been given many special graces of discernment, spiritual healings, emotional healings and physical healings." (IAM, p127)
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, That saved and set me free!
I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.
Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed!
Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come;
Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me, His Word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be As long as life endures.
When we've been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we'd first begun.
(song written by John Newton ???)
To turn to good is not possible without prevenient GRACE, but prevenient GRACE by itself cannot ensure the turn.(Paradise3, p136)
Only the apprehension of the majesty of God wed to a sense of God's GRACE toward us is strong enough to transform us from people who evade God's commandments into people who desire to know and keep them, and delight in doing so. (Vanity, p77)
God does well in granting the grace of spiritual comfort, but we fall short in not referring everything back to God by thanking him. As a result, the gifts of grace cannot flow freely in us because we are often ungrateful to the giver, and we do not refer it all back to the source from which it came. Grace will always be given to the truly grateful, and what is usually given to the humble will be taken away from the proud. Those who attribute to God all the good that they have received do not seek praise from others, but seek that glory that comes from God alone. Above all, they wish that God may be praised in himself and in all his saints, and this is their constant aim. So be grateful for every little gift and you will be worthy to receive greater ones. Consider the least gift as great and the most common as something special. (Imitation, Book2, Ch10)
God, like a hound of heaven, hunts us down, takes the initiative, offers the grace, and leads us through the desert of ego-desperation to a higher degree of theocentric adoration. (Dark Night, p87-8)