Quotes About Grace

For our sins, He suffered beneath the burden of that unanswered prayer."1 Here

We must always remember that the path does not produce the change; it only places us where the change can occur. This is the path of disciplined grace. There

It is only because of your love, only your love, that the poor will forgive you the bread you give them.

Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.

God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture. We do not have to be bright, or pure, or filled with faith, or anything. That is what grace means, and not only are we saved by grace, we live by it as well. And we pray by it.

The Spiritual Disciplines are the means of God's grace for bringing about genuine personality formation characterized through and through by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control (Gal. 5:22–23).

Grace is not against good works It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God.

The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.

The lucky among us might get the same deal as Dysmas. Dysmas was one of the thieves crucified next to Christ. When he asked for forgiveness, Christ said, 'Today you will be with me in paradise.' " Candy

I want to say that I'm not doing this because you tried to kill me. I want to be bigger and better than that. But I'm not. I'm doing this because you tried to kill me.

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

If God doesn't use people who've failed, who's left for Him to use?'" ***

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.'" Matthew

Oh, could you view the melodyOf every graceAnd music of her face,You'd drop a tear;Seeing more harmonyIn her bright eyeThan now you hear.

My advice to myself is simple. Run with MS, not away from it. That race from existing illness cannot be won. See the truth. We move forward with grace when the wind is at our backs.

I just leave myself entirely in my heavenly Father's hands and have no anxiety about the future. I know that if He sees fit to send me greater suffering, He will give greater grace to bear it.

Every Christian family ought to be a little church, consecrated to Christ and wholly influenced and governed by His rules," Jonathan taught. "And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace.

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.'" He

religion also teaches kindness, personal responsibility, and the grace not to judge people by the worst moments in their lives.

he knew that men were too complex to be defined by the worst moment in their lives

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.