Grace Quotes
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Religion is the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.
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We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.
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Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.
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Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.
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When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.
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Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera.... London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera.
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I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.
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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.
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Be true in your relationship with the Sovereign Creator, for He is the greatest one with whom you could relate in all your affairs and states.
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No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
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There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.
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Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!
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Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
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Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.
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Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!
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God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.
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The Holy Trinity doesn't need our permission to carry on in their endlessly resourceful work of making all things new. That we are invited to catch even a glimpse of the splendor is grace. All of it, every breath and every second is grace.
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But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
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I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
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When the Bible uses the words salvation, Savior, and save, it's speaking of the total work of God in bringing people from a state of death - hopeless separation from God - to a state of everlasting life through the forgiveness of sin, based on the merits of Christ Jesus who died and rose again. Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.
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No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.
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I have the grace of providence to be poor.
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God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
