Quotes About Grace

The blessings of God will complicate your life, but unlike sin, they will complicate your life in the way it should be complicated.

Grace is loving people for who they are, where they are. It's loving people *before* they change, not just *after* they change. And that grace is the difference between holy and holier-than-thou. Holiness, in its purest form, is irresistible. That's why sinners couldn't be kept away from Jesus. Hypocrisy has the opposite effect. It's as repulsive to the irreligious as the Pharisees' religiosity was to Jesus.

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of His grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace. Every day should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. —JERRY BRIDGES

Pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on you." But there are others, such as, "Criticize by creating," "Thou shalt offend Pharisees," and "Catch people doing something right.

Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.

In the words of Corrie ten Boom, "There is no pit too deep that God's grace isn't deeper still.

Sometimes the purpose of prayer is to get us out of circumstances, but more often than not, the purpose of prayer is to get us through them. I'm certainly not suggesting we shouldn't pray deliverance prayers, but there are times we need to pray prevailing prayers. We need to ask God to give us the grace to sustain, the strength to stand firm, and the willpower to keep on keeping on.

Nothing belongs to us, not even ourselves. But the exchange rate is unbelievable. All of our sin is transferred to Christ's account, and all of His righteousness is transferred to our account. God cancels our debt, writes us into His will, and calls it even!

But Paul knew that his sin was nailed to the cross, and the hammer of God's mercy has no claw.

As the interview ended, I asked him one last question: "If you had one thing to say about God and man, what would you say?" He paused, switched to English, and said, "Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.

I'm willing to die on, but there are some I'm not willing to die on. I won't engage in the combat of criticism. It is sideways energy, and it doesn't have a redemptive purpose. I overlook the offense so I can keep playing offense.

When you confess your sin, it no longer defines you.

If you want to impact someone's life, love them when they least expect it and least deserve it ... You might think, "But they don't deserve it." That's the point, isn't it?

God's love is proactive. He doesn't wait for us to get our act together. God always makes the first move. And we're called to follow suit.

In working through nonreligious language to explain that journey, the idea of place became very important. Jesus says, "Here's the deal! I'll leave My place. I'll come to your place. I'll take your place. And then we'll go to My place." This simplicity captured me. Everyone understands places. We all have them. It's where we live our lives day to day. Then Jesus walks into our place and redirects us.

Dios no hace milagros para satisfacer nuestros caprichos egoístas. Dios hace milagros por una razón, y solo por esa razón: porque quiere dar a conocer su gloria. Nosotros solo tenemos la suerte de ser sus beneficiarios.

Vivir sin tropezar por causa de Jesús no es ninguna experiencia al estilo Zen. Es llevar una vida sometida a su soberanía, su misterio y su amor. Jesús nos promete que seremos bienaventurados si no hallamos tropiezo en él cuando hace cosas a favor de otras personas.

Si nosotros hacemos lo ordinario, Dios le añadirá lo extraordinario.

God is infinitely bigger than your biggest problem or biggest dream. And while we're on the topic, His grace is infinitely bigger than your biggest sin.

Humility honors God, and God honors humility.

Aren't you grateful for a gentle God? The Almighty could intimidate us with His outside voice, but He woos us with a whisper. And His whisper is the breath of life.

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply. "Be still, and know that I am God." Some knowing is never pursued, only received. And for that, you need to be still.

I discovered that being thankful and experiencing the power and presence of Jesus Christ are tightly entwined. As we practice thankfulness, we experience more of God's transforming grace, God's thereness.