Quotes About Grace

Being saved from your sins is not about you giving to God; it's about God giving to you.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Dragoste gratuit? nu exist?; dragostea este expresia cea mai costisitoare din lume. Dar lucrul minunat este c? pre?ul ei a fost pl?tit deja.

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

Often we are not aware of how close we are to that which we need but we think we do not have. In His grace, God has placed some hidden gold somewhere in all of us that meets our need at a desperate moment.

Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can't we see his real message?

the cross is the centerpiece of the gospel message. It is truly the intersection of love and justice, judgment and grace, exactitude and mercy. The demands of the law call for perfection. But the law itself cannot transform the human heart. What this really means is that perfection cannot get us into heaven, but our faith in the Perfect One can. His justice comes hand in hand with love. And neither ever violates the other.

The service [Jesus] gave to humanity was given even when we least merited that sacrifice. There is a joy in service that transcends emotional temporariness.

Herein lies the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us: Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

God's grace is beyond description. He lifted all of us over the walls of our own imprisonment.

God alone knows how to humble us without humiliating us and how to exalt us without flattering us. And how he effects this is the grand truth of the Christian message.

Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night. Thine eye diffused a quickening ray; I woke — the dungeon flamed with light! My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee.

Dios, el gran Tejedor, busca a las personas de corazón tierno para dejar su sello en ellas. Tus penas y desilusiones son parte de ese diseño, pues darán forma a tu corazón y a la manera en que sientes la realidad. Tus penas siempre te formarán; no hay otra manera.

All of this is a reassuring reminder that in spite of our mistakes and failures, our heavenly Father is still able to bring something lasting and beautiful from our lives.

Jesus worked by changing the heart, not by legislating. Legislation can only force compliance. It can never produce the love necessary to change an attitude. Jesus

It was not just the prodigal in the far-off country who squandered the love of the father; the older brother lost out as well, though he was close to the father's love.

Just as strength is a man's charm,so charm is a woman's strength.

Perhaps living in that hope now will make us act less petty on this side of heaven.

we are called to see the gracious hand of a designing God in our lives.

the gospel of Jesus Christ is that, though it is a story

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive. Worldviews

A moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. This is the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

A veces, quienes hemos sido bendecidos tan grandemente parecemos ser los menos capaces de ver la gracia de la mano de Dios sobre nosotros mismos.

When God puts a broken life back together, He removes the scars because He builds from the inside out. And when God steadies a faltering life, He puts you on His footing.