Quotes About Grace

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.

We believe that our salvation depends solely upon God's work in us, and not upon our testimony; and the little child with stammering lips, but wrought upon by the Holy Spirit, will precede vain scribes into the Kingdom of Heaven.

it may never be said that like the state and the church, science arose because of sin and thus from an intervening grace.

Most of us can't go back and make restitution. We can't do a thing about our should haves and our could haves. But a few lucky men like Ghosh never have such worries; there was no restitution he needed to make, no moment he failed to seize.

She remembered, too, how in her first days in Addis, when things had looked so bleak, so terrifying, so tragic with Melly's death—it was at those moments that God's grace came, and that God's plan was revealed, though it was revealed in His time. "I can't see it, Lord, but I know You can

Life comes from God and life is precious precisely because it is brief. God's gift is time. However much or however little one has of it, it comes from him.

When they turn in, he says, "It must be so hard to see such suffering every day." He shudders. "I couldn't do it. Only luck and the grace of God keeps us free of such afflictions. We're so blessed, aren't we?

you forgave me long ago. Why would I not do the same? So, whatever it is, I forgive you." She rises, touches his cheek, kisses him on his forehead

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

Bellow "Tell the range and all that's howling, the flickers of life beyond the weeds, the vulture's furrowed brow of flight, the blasted sticky Canadian lawn thistle; tell the clowned-out clouds and the rain, and all that makes you go quiet again, tell them that you didn't come here to make a fuss, or break, or growl, or scream; tell them-crazy sky and stars between-tell them you didn't come to disturb the night air and throw a fit, then get down in the dark and do it.

Poetry is a place where both grief and grace can live, where rage can be explored and examined, not simply exploited.

Two female horses, retired mares, separated by a sliding barn door, nose each other. Neither of them will get pregnant again, their job is to just be a horse.

She had a way of wearing anything so that the cloth seemed glad and independently animated.

For too long, we've called unbelievers to 'invite Jesus into your life.' Jesus doesn't want to be in your life. Your life's a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isn't boring or purposeless or static. It's wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.

Charis, as Paul uses it, is an act of kindness, an expression of selfless love that is completely undeserved and is given without any expectation of repayment. We are never more like God than when we are giving selflessly to others. Because God created us to live in this way, we seldom feel more alive and joyful than when we are serving, blessing, and helping someone else. That is charis. It is grace.

The profound gift of Christmas is our salvation and forgiveness. The babe born in Bethlehem would give his life to save us from our sin.

be free. God is the God of the second chance. And Jesus came to save us from our sins and from ourselves. What wondrous love is this!

God's Providence and Human Suffering

you have a Father who knit you together in your mother's womb, who loves you more than you can possibly imagine, who walks with you, cares for you,

and is relentless in his love and mercy and grace toward you.

we are reminded that God is often most profoundly at work in those times when we're confused, broken, or wounded.

Grace is God's kindness, his love, his care, his work on our behalf, his blessings, his gifts, his goodness, his forgiveness, and his salvation. But it is more than that—it is all these things when they are undeserved, when they are pure gift.

grace has the power to change our lives.

God's love, mercy, and kindness are offered to us all. He showed us grace.