Grace Quotes
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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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I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.
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Grace and mercy are never deserved.
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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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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding.
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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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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.
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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
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Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.
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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
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Married couples, may we never forget that when attacks come the grace of the sacrament is eternally stronger than we are.
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God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
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Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.
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God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
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Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.
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Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve. ...... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift
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Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.
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I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).
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Telling a joke is like doing a linguistic pirouette. If you fall flat, it means not only that you don't have the wherewithal to do it well but also that you have misjudged your own skill, that you are fool enough to undertake something you can't finish -- and that lack of self-control or self-knowledge is a lack of grace.
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Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O! keep me from their worse than killing lust, And tumble me into some loathsome pit, Where never man’s eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer. Tam: So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee: No, let them satisfy their lust on thee. Dem: Away! for thou hast stay’d us here too long. Lav: No grace! no womanhood! Ah, beastly creature, The blot and enemy to our general name. Confusion fall—
