Quotes About Grace

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. MATTHEW 7:1–2.

In short, and to put the matter bluntly, without the healing power of grace we are not be able to reason our way to God because we will lack the desire to engage with the reality beyond ourselves. In refusing this grace, we excommunicate ourselves from the world of objective reality, exorcising the power of reason instead of exercising it. In so doing, we condemn ourselves to life imprisonment, turning our very lives into a living death sentence. Since

Only God can give us credit for the angry words we did not speak. —Rabbi Harold Kushner, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough, page 187

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

Religion is humans trying to work their way to God through good works. Christianity is God coming to men and women through Jesus Christ.

If we reject the convicting agent of the Holy Spirit and keep on deliberately sinning we simply can't obtain forgiveness.

To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

I am a leaf on the wind - watch how I soar

She had horses who were the blue air of the sky.

During these mad dashes to the wall phone in the kitchen she hadn't time to fall but with fantastical grace and dexterity wrenched herself upright in midfall and continued running (dogs whimpering, yapping hysterically in her wake, cats scattering wide-eyed and plume-tailed) before the telephone ceased it's querulous ringing--though frequently she was greeted with nothing more than a derisive dial tone, in any case.

While Annabel possessed the sylphid grace of a fairy-tale princess, unstudied and seemingly spontaneous, yet with a dreamy air, Willy presented a dramatic contrast: brash, brusque, heavy-jawed, with eyes that engaged too directly, and too often ironically. Willy's considerable charm was at first obscured, to the superficial eye, by a certain stolidity in her figure, as in her character.

the swans are beautiful like figures in a dream, that seem to represent something for which there are no adequate words.

Always, you maintain your dignity.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.

Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.

Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many different people in the world with a variety of opinions and expectations. I will concentrate on being a God-pleaser and not a self-pleaser or man-pleaser. The rest I leave in Your hands lord. Grant me favor with You and with men and continue transforming me into the image of Your dear Son. Thank You Lord.

Why wouldn't we run to God. He's sooo good. God's not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.

God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.

God knows the mess we're in when He calls us. His light shines greater through "cracked pots" than it does through those who have it all together.

Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.

God is Good...Jesus is Lord Be Good to Yourself and each Other J-Jesus..O-Others..Y-Yourself

Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God's eyes they do