Quotes About Grace

I hear men talk as though prayer were of no avail unless we believe beforehand with assurance that we were going to receive all for which we asked. It is not true. We are not heard for our much asking, nor for much our believing, but for God's great mercy's sake.

God ever does for us more abundantly than we can ask or think. Israel implores only the destruction of the serpents. God undoes their poisonous work.

The most beautiful statue that Powers ever chiseled does not compare for grace and beauty with the Divine model. The same mystic element of life is wanting.

It was her religion to make the best of everything.

reprieve of roses!

What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?

Your success is not in what you do, but in who you are in Jesus. His death on the cross, His resurrection life, and His righteousness define you.

Think of it. Jesus left the comforts of heaven and came into our universe, our pasture, to smell like sheep!

Even when bad things happen, He can use them for good.

When we feel unworthy in His presence it's because we glimpse His holiness.

When you forgive someone, you make a choice to cancel the debt he owes you.

Once the sacrifice has burned into ashes on the altar, your sin is nothing but ashes, as well. The Holy One forgives us—and we have to believe it in faith. That means leaving our past in the past, not agonizing over it, not bringing it to life in your memory again and again. We must forget it the same way God does—'As far as the east is from the west.' That's how far in the past our sins will be.

In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength

But the Scriptures say that as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is Hashem's mercy toward us. As far as the east is from the west, so far has Hashem removed our sins from us. We can be forgiven. And then we can begin to live new lives from that day forward.

The text was Jesus' commandment from the twelfth chapter of Mark to love thy neighbor as thyself. Dominie said that loving our neighbor didn't necessarily mean we must feel loving emotions toward them, but that we must speak lovingly to them, rather than in anger or derision. And we must do acts of lovingkindness and compassion, deliberately and frequently, demonstrating the undeserved grace God shows to us.

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.'" "Amen

Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.

In retrospect, I see it more like this: the true God, in grace, set me free. Even in my desperation, I don't believe I would have had the courage to walk away from my childhood God unless the Spirit of a different God had whispered in my ear: I understand. I know your soul needs to be purged and healed from the wound of the false God. So, do it. Turn your back. Walk away. It'll be okay.

For the habitually reserved Englishman . . . concealment of his emotions is the first and cardinal rule of gentlemanliness and social grace," one Ko?ciuszko Squadron pilot observed.

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad and what she has is always a package deal of both. In other words, I've been assigned a load I can handle.

My ability to heal cannot be conditional on them wanting my forgiveness but only on my willingness to give it.

To love God is to cooperate with His grace. And since I'm so very aware of my own need for grace, I must be willing to freely give it away. Each hole left from rejection must become an opportunity to create more and more space for grace in my heart.

Living loved is sourced in your quiet daily surrender to the One who made you.