J. B. Priestley Quotes

Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.

Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don’t you use them in the search for love?

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

I want to get to know God.

To be spiritual means you have cosmic ambitions. You want to know not just the whole creation but the Creator and the source of creation as well. To be material means you have petty ambitions of owning a house - or 10 houses - or a whole apartment building.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.

Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.

I'm just a product of grace that's still in the process; And I don't got to be great because my God is.

Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.

We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a little well for water. A fool indeed is the man who, living near a mine of diamonds, spends his life in searching for beads of glass." God is that mine of diamonds. We are fools indeed to give up God for legends of ghosts or flying hobgoblins. It is a disease, a morbid desire.

If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.