Grace Quotes
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There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.
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In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
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Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.
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I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.
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Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.
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They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance".
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Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
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Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.
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Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.
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The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.
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Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.
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And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.
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That was how she said goodbye to the world. To the people she loved. She was going to leave this earth the same way her mother had. With all the grace of the old world. The old, dying world.
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God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?
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Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.
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Under the law, even the best failed. Under grace, even the worst can be saved!
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Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.
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Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul said in Romans 11:6, "And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace." Our relationship with God is based on either works or grace. There is never a works-plus-grace relationship with Him.
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I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.
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I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.
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The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children
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His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments.
