Willie Aames Quotes

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

God is gracious enough to let us know, in due time while we're here and the fact that I'm still around and I'm still singing, it is really to his glory.

The grace of God is courtesy.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.

He has turned my life around by 180 degrees, I still don't understand why Shiva has blessed me so much. I believe he'll bless the worst of us first because we need it the most.

God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.

God blessed me. I help God, too.

I know, by the Lord's grace, I am a small part in the cosmic play.

God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.