Quotes About Grace

A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.

By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words -- or the words of others?

So our Lord God commonly gives riches to those gross asses to whom He vouchsafes nothing else.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness--this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain.

To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.

Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.

As a child I understood how to give, I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. -

ASK AND YOU WILL RECIVED.IT HAS WORD FOR ME.

We are in tune, and given the chance, we do things tunefully. We dance.

God is glorified not by calling strong women but by giving His strength to weak women.

God doesn't want our efforts at self-improvement. He wants our trust in his kindness toward us in Christ.

God let [Jonah] go his own way, as he does with us when we insist on running our own show; but because God is merciful, he will make sure that any way we take away from him doesn't work out so well.

Our God is a God who not merely restores, but takes up our mistakes and follies into his plan for us and brings good out of them.

Jesus plus something else does not double your security. It actually takes it away. The only security is Jesus plus nothing.

The Holy Spirit doesn't give us more love or more faithfulness or more joy. He gives us Christ, and as he does, joy and all the rest are produced within us as the fruit of that union (p. 73).

God isn't interested in helping us with our self-improvement program; he is interested in our holiness.

Lord, I think I made a mess of things. So I am placing the whole situation in your hands. Do with it what you will." Our

Ce que j'aimais sans mesure chez ces sept femmes (lesquelles ayant pris le risque de vivre sans prudence ne purent éviter celui d'en souffrir) c'était leur puissance poétique, c'était la grâce de leur écriture, c'était le retournement qu'elles opéraient sur les forces de mort et leur pouvoir de conjuguer l'oeuvre avec l'existence, c'était le bouleversement qu'elles provoquaient en moi et le surcroît de vie qu'elles ne cessaient depuis longtemps de m'insuffler.

Ah! se a gente pudesse se organizar com o equilíbrio das estrelas tão exatas nas suas constelações. Mas parece que a graça está na meia-luz. Na ambiguidade. E até as estrelas, pobrezinhas, equilibradas mas tremendo tanto na solidão.

Chego mais perto de minha dona, continua bela apesar dos estragos, seduziu o tempo. Como seduziu as pessoas.

Foi descendo a escada, evitando despertar os degraus.

Maidens, be they never so foolish, yet being fair they are commonly fortunate.