Quotes About Grace

Limits not only reveal his wisdom; they also express his love. Limits are not a prison; they are a grace. You cannot allow your leadership community to assign more work to a leader than can be done in the time allotted to him or her. You cannot ask a person to pile work upon work, day after day, without periodic Sabbaths of rest. There are few more important things for a spiritually healthy leadership community to consider than the time limits that God designed for his creation from the get-go.

He covers your past with his grace; he protects, provides for, and empowers you in the present; and he holds every aspect of your future in his sovereign and gracious hands.

Healthy ministry communities, which leave a legacy of long-term gospel productivity, have longevity and fruit because they are, at their core, communities of grace. Rather than achievement forming how the leadership community forms itself and operates, the gospel does.

Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.

Christianity gutted of Christ is devoid of both its beauty and its power.

We don't offer people a system; we point them to a Redeemer. He is hope.

We have peace because we know that he will complete the good things that he in grace has initiated in our lives.

There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

We bask in God's grace but throw the law at others. We're

let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

solo cuando Su trono es más importante que el tuyo que vas a encontrar gozo en la difícil y humillante tarea del ministerio evangélico. Y Su gracia no se va a rendir hasta que nuestros corazones hayan sido completamente cautivados por Su gloria. Ahora bien, ¡ésa es una buena noticia!

You are most loving, patient, kind, and gracious when you are aware that there is no truth that you could give to another that you don't desperately need yourself.

the Bible is not a collection of stories, but one big story with lots of chapters. It is the story of how God meets weak and failing people with his powerful grace.

Here is what life is all about. At its center is a God of awesome glory—glorious in power, wisdom, faithfulness, love, and grace. Here is what everyone needs—rescue by this glory. Here is what everyone was created for—to live for this glory. Here is grace—that God would choose to splash his eternal glory down on inglorious, unthankful, rebellious, and self-oriented people such as us.

Because I had been given another gift: the knowledge of a ready, willing, and capable Savior. I had been blessed with the awareness of his offer of forgiveness to all who confess their sin and by faith seek his forgiveness.

Your life is not good because it is easy or predictable, but because the I Am has invaded your existence by his grace.

Forgiveness is a vertical commitment that is followed by a horizontal transaction.

The best gift of the desert is God's presence.

Suffering, gracefully accepted, refines the human heart, and the experience of darkness sharpens the vision of the spirit.

The issue is not whether people are "good enough" for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil…. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath…. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 12:17, 19,21.

Yun often tells me, "We are absolutely nothing. We have nothing to be proud about. We have no abilities and nothing to offer God. The fact that he chooses to use us is only due to his grace. It has nothing to do with us. If God should choose to raise up others for his purpose and never use us again we would have nothing to complain about.

Some men live free in this life, only to face an eternal prison in hell. You're in prison in this life, but from today your names have been written in heaven and you are free!