“Grace, like water flows to the lowest part.” – Philip Yancey
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“Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.” – Dwight Lyman Moody
“Grace is the very opposite of merit… Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.” – Harry Ironside
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” – Aristotle
“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. -Victor Hugo
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile. -Elie Wiesel
Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason. -Pope Francis
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. -Denis Waitley
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. -William Hazlitt
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. -Anne Lamott
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. -Charles Caleb Colton
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. -Marlene Dietrich
“Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; ‘Tis grace has brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home.” – John Newton
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The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. -Isaiah 58:11
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For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations. -Isaiah 61:11
You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon. -Song of Songs 4:15
*For all of you caterpillar lovers out there…this caterpillar was alive when I found the ants dragging it away. I rescued it after I took the photo.
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God stands forever. -Isaiah 40:8
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. -Luke 12:27
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. -Ecclesiastes 3:11
I am the Vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me, and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing. -John 15:5
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If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete. – Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letter to Varro, 1st century AD
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. – Gertrude Jekyll
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. – Unknown
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