177 Grace Quotes That Will Change Your Life

When life isn’t going easy, these grace quotes will meet you where you are. 

There are many definitions of the word grace.

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What are the benefits of reading grace quotes?

Grace can describe a ballerina’s beautiful and fluid movements or the act of honoring someone with your presence.

But when life is going hard, you’ve made wrong choices, or need a little forgiveness; those aren’t the meanings that you care about. 

Instead, you want the grace that God or someone else shows by not giving you the punishment or treatment that you deserve after doing something wrong.

It is important that we use these grace quotes to:

• help us understand we need to give ourselves grace too
• improve our relationship with others by learning how to offer grace
• enrich the quality of our day and the impact we have on each other

It’s the kind treatment and extended patience that we all need from time to time. 

To help nourish your soul, below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and uplifting grace quotes, sayings, and proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

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Grace quotes that will elevate your perspective

1. “Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.” – Benjamin B. Warfield

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2. “Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.” – Max Lucado

3. “Grace, like water flows to the lowest part.” – Philip Yancey

4. “Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.” – Arthur W. Pink

5. “Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.” – Jonathan Edwards

6. “For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.” – Saint Augustine of Hippo

7. “You can’t win the race without God’s grace.” ― Ojo Michael E.

8. “Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. “Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.” – Jacob Rees-Mogg

10. “The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” – Aristotle

11. “Grace needs to be the air we breathe, the atmosphere we live in, whether in church or in the home.” – Allen Snapp

12. “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

Grace quotes for the challenging days

13. “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

14. “Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind.” – Rochefoucauld

15. “What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.” – Rick Warren

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16. “Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.” – Brennan Manning

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17. “Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There’s no way to earn it or deserve it or bring about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks.” – Frederick Buechner

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Grace quotes about God’s grace

18. “We are born broken. We live mending. The grace of God is the glue.” —Eugene O’Neill

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19. “You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.” – Charles Portis

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20. “Your 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

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21. “The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presences.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon

22. “Grace saves us from life without God—even more, it empowers us for life with God.” —Richard Foster

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Grace quotes on how it impacts us

23. “Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.” – Charles Spurgeon

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24. “Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.” – C.H. Spurgeon

25. “Grace releases and affirms. It doesn’t smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn’t destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn’t jealous or suspicious.” – Charles Swindoll

26. “When grace moves in… guilt moves out.” – Max Lucado

27. “Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.” – A.W. Tozer

28. “I am redeemed and saved by grace.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

29. “Grace is the love that gives, that loves the unlovely and the unlovable.” – Oswald C. Hoffmann

30. “The higher a man is in grace. The lower he will be in his own esteem.” – Charles Spurgeon

Grace quotes on showing it to others

31. “If I’m not showing grace… have I forgotten the grace I’ve been shown.” – John F. Macarthur Jr.

32. “The motive and purpose behind the law … is to make it clear exactly how much you must do and no more. Grace refuses to put a ceiling or a floor on concern for the neighbor.” – Joseph Fletcher

33. “I give grace because I so desperately need it.” – Lysa Terkeurst

34. “Showing grace to others is about showing kindness even when they don’t deserve it.”  – Dawn Klinge

35. “Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.” – Dallas Willard

36. “Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.” – Walter Scott

37. “Sometimes people are going to be rude. Instead of responding harshly, keep a calm spirit.” – Dawn Klinge

Grace quotes to nourish your soul

38. “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

39. “Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.” – John Chrystostom

40. “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.” – Mark Twain

41. “Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning; then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.” – Thomas Adams

42. “Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.” – Saint Augustine

43. “When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.” – Victor Hugo

44. “Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.”― Christopher Hitchens

45. “None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.” – Thomas Watson

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More grace quotes and sayings

46. “Grace does not depend on what we have done, but on what God has done for us.” ― Wendy Blight

47. “Beauty is grace and confidence. I’ve learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.” – Lindsay Lohan

48. “Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.” – Francis Beaumont

49. “If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.” – Francis Bacon

50. “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.” – Flannery O’Connor

51. “Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.” – Charles Warren Stoddard

52. “Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.” – Karl Barth

53. “A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.” – Francis Bacon

54. “Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.” – Karl Rahner

55. “Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.” –
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Inspirational grace quotes that will improve your day

56. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

57. “Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking.” – Frederick Buechner

58. “When life doesn’t meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.” – Patricia Briggs

59. “Grace doesn’t depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.” – Wm. Paul Young

60. “Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better.” – Caroline Myss

61. “Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way.” – Ricky Maye

62. “Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.” – John Piper

63. “Grace is God-given power to live differently.” – Judah Smith

64. “Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.” – Jonathan Edwards

65. “Grace bends the rule for us when we accomplish in a few days what could have taken a lifetime to achieve.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

66. “The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.” – Martin Luther

67. “And as grace is free, so is it sure. Nothing can change, or alter, or turn away sovereign grace.” – Alexander Whyte

68. “The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.” – Saint Augustine Of Hippo

69. “Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.” – Samuel Rutherford

70. “Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.” – Max Lucado

Grace quotes about faith and life

71.  “Everything God does—past, present, or future, whether in grace or in judgment—is to reveal His glory.” ― Jim George

72. “Grace isn’t just forgiveness, it is forgiveness fueled by surrender.” — Amy E. Spiegel

73. “Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.” — Elie Wiesel

74. “It has been a great journey from where I have started to where I am today. I am really blessed with God’s grace.” — Dhanush

75. “All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.”— Mooji

76. “Grace is not just enough, it is more than enough.”― John Paul Warren

77. “Courage is grace under pressure.”— Ernest Hemingway

78. “Feel your grace and beauty.”― Adrienne Posey

79. “Grace is a gentle thing. Easily destroyed by selfishness, envy, ill will, and fear. Easily invited by kindness, hope, forgiveness, and love.”― Donna Goddard, Touched by Love

80. “Grace is the growth of goodness.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

More grace quotes and sayings

81. “Grace is not blind. It sees the hurt full well. But chooses to see God’s forgiveness even more.” – Max Lucado

82. “That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.” – Franois Mauriac

83. “Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.” – Dallas Willard

84. “Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God’s favor.” – Dwight L. Moody

85. “Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.” – Maya Angelou

86. “If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.” – John Mark Mcmillan

87. “Grace is the only thing in the world that is stronger than shame.”― Richard Beck

88. “Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.” – Oswald Chambers

89. “Grace trumps karma.”― Ayden Byle

90. “Grace gives power to do good.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

Powerful grace quotes for life’s challenging moments

91. “Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.” — Friedrich Schiller

92. “It is a grace to be able to hold on to someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking.”― Chris Fabry

93. “Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere.” — Dion DiMucci

94. “Grace has the ability to change anything at any time.” — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

95. “Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

96. “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

97. “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

98. “Life is about choices, and the grace – or lack thereof – with which you execute them is a make-or-break moment in anyone’s life.” — Gina Torres

99. “The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.” — Ramakrishna

100. “Without grace, our failures cannot become wisdom.”― Casey Tygrett

Encouraging grace quotes

101. “May grace and peace be multiplied to you.” – 1 Peter 1:2

102. “… bring your need, your troubles, your afflictions, your loneliness into the heart of God’s grace and deliverance.” – David Powlison, God’s Grace in Your Suffering

103. “Life is so much easier when I am aware of God’s grace in my life, all the wonderful gifts I’ve been given, and the people whom I have been blessed to meet and know.” – Joe Hoft, Loving, Blessing, and Being Aware of God’s Grace

104. “I want to focus on God’s grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don’t want to focus on what I don’t have.” – Joyce Meyer

105. “Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.”― Simone Weil

106. “The grace that God gives is amazing. Through Jesus, He forgives our sins when we don’t deserve it and have no way to earn it.” – Adam Cumpston

107. “But God’s grace is also exhibited when we humbly bow before Christ in repentance and faith, for then we find forgiveness. Thank God for His grace, for without it we would have no hope!” – Billy Graham, Hope For Each Day

108.”In God’s mercy and grace, He forgives us and still loves us despite ourselves.” – Jeanette Duby, Bridge to Grace

109. “Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.” – John Stott

110. “If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.” – David Jeremiah, What In the World Is Going On

Grace Quotes To Give You a Peaceful Soul

111. “Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.” ― Mariah Carey

112. “It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.” ― Thomas Brooks

113. “Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.” ― LeCrae

114. “As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

115. “Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.” ― Joseph Joubert

116. “Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.” ― Saul Bellow

117. “I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.” ― Studs Terkel

118. “I do not know any way to explain why God’s grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.” ― Whittaker Chambers

119. “Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.” ― Georges Rouault

120. “Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.” ― Joseph Joubert

Grace Quotes To Uplift Your Spirit During A Troubling Phase

121. “We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.” — Billy Graham

122. “True grace always produces vigilance rather than complacency; it always produces perseverance rather than indolence.” — Jerry Bridges

123. “If you feel powerless, do not fear. We have access by faith into God’s grace.” — Scott F. Neve

124. “God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.” — Max Lucado

125. “Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.” — Ramana Maharshi

126. “Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!” ― C. JoyBell C

127. “It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

128. “Be watchful – the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.” — Rumi

129. “Men may fall by sin, but cannot raise up themselves without the help of grace.” — John Bunyan

130. “Grace is God’s acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.” ― Adrian Rogers

Grace Quotes To Help You Overcome The Challenges

131.“I taught I had to be good to walk with God. And God said, “My grace is what you need to walk with me, than you will be good.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

132. “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

133. “Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.” ― Sarah Ban Breathnach

134. “Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.”

― C.J. Mahaney

135. “God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” ― Reinhold Niebuhr

136.“Some people are desperate because they don’t know how to ask for His grace.” ― Bree Despain

137. “I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” ― Wendell Berry

138. “Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.” ― Pope Francis

139. “The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: ‘grace.’” ― Max Lucado

140. “In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.” ― John Coltrane

Uplifting Grace Quotes to Enhance Your Life

141. “As I am humbled by my difficulties, so I am strengthened by God’s grace.” ― Alistair Begg

142. “Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God…is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.” ― Karl Barth

143. “Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response.” ― Bill Johnson

144. “Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!” ― Bill Johnson

145. “But by the grace of God I am what I am.” ― John Newton

146. “All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.” ― Hudson Taylor

147. “Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.” ― John Wesley

148. “Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life’s sorrow with grace.” ― Matthew Fox

149. “True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.” ― Frederic Dan Huntington

150. “God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.” ― Orville Dewey

Grace Quotes that Celebrate the Beauty of Graceful Living

151. “Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.” ― John O’Donohue

152. “Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful…” ― Heather Bixler

153. “Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and the power of moving on.” ― Steve Maraboli

154. “Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.” ― Orrin Woodward

155. “Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT.” ― John Paul Warrem

156. “Grace is never wanting. God always gives sufficient grace to whoever is willing to receive it.” ― St. Francis de Sales

157. “None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It’s by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.” ― J.B. McGee

158. “God has given you grace. Maybe you should give yourself some too.” ― Todd Stocker

159. “Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination.” ― Jaeda DeWalt

160. “Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom.” ― Soul Dancer

Grace Quotes to Embrace Life’s Challenges and Serenity

161. “To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.” ― Frederick Buechner

162. “Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.” ― Thomas C. Oden

163. “His self-righteousness has prevented him from enjoying the grace all around him.” ― Justin Buzzard

164. “Grace destroys entitlement.” ― Justin Buzzard

165. “Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.” ― Bill Courtney

166. “The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.” ― Colum McCann

167. “Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.” ― Cathleen Falsani

168. “A person with grace is somebody who’s socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.” ― Matt Berninger

169. “Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.” ― Tullian Tchividjian

170. “Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.” ― Timothy Keller

171. “The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace.” ― Sinclair B. Ferguson

172. “A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.” ― Elisabeth Elliot

173. “When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.” ― William Hendriksen

174. “Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him.” ― Max Anders

175. “We respond to healing grace by giving it away.” ― Philip Yancey

176. “Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.” ― Julia Cameron

177. “Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.” ― John Bunyan

Grace: We all need it and have opportunities to extend it

If you need a little grace, it’s always available to you.

Not all people are experienced at, or good at, showing grace to others, but God’s grace is always available to you. 

But grace isn’t only something that we all need.

It’s something that we can show others.

If someone has treated you wrong, you can choose to show them grace.

For instance, this could mean overlooking someone’s poor attitude towards you because you know they are dealing with a difficult situation in their personal life or offering to help someone that needs it and won’t ask for it. 

While you can’t control if other people will show you grace when you need it, you can choose to give grace to others.

It’s difficult, but it’s well worth it.

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