Quotes About Grace

We don't have to learn to be holy as a hard lesson at school in order to make God think well of us; we are to learn it at home with the Father to help us. God loves you not because you are clever and not because you are good but because He is your Father. The cross of Christ does not make God love us; it is the outcome and measure of His love for us.

It is not sin, but God's grace showing a man and ever reminding him what a sinner he was, that, will keep him truly humble.

The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort.

Remember that Christ works in and through you, and provides all that God desires for you and all that you need.

It is pride that made redemption needful; it is from our pride we need above everything to be redeemed.

Jesus Christ is able, by His divine grace, to prevent the power of self from ever asserting itself or gaining the upper hand; Jesus Christ is willing to become the life of the soul; Jesus Christ is willing to teach us so to follow Him, and to have heart and life set upon Him alone, that He shall ever and always be the light of our souls.

Let a man be what he will, you are to love him. Love is to be the fruit of the Spirit all the day and every day.

May God write the Word in our hearts!

This is the love of God; not that He gives us something, but that He gives us some one - a living person - not one or another blessing, but Him in whom is all life and blessing - Jesus Himself.

When feeling says, 'In myself, I am sinful; I am dark; I am weak; I am poor; I am sad;' let faith say. 'In Christ, I am holy; I am light; I am strong; I am rich; I am joyful.

One of the chief causes of the feeble life in the church is the mistaken idea that our happiness is the main object of God's grace. God's objective is far holier and far higher! He has saved us that we in turn might save others. Every believer is ordained to be the means of imparting to others the life he or she has received.

Therefore every morning, present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead. He will maintain the life He gave, and bestow the grace to live as risen ones.

No, wandering one; as it was Jesus who drew you when He spake "Come," so it is Jesus who keeps you when He says "Abide." The grace to come and the grace to abide are alike from Him alone.

cannot love him." Oh, friend, you have not learned the lesson that Christ wanted to teach above everything. Let a man be what he will, you

And at fifty, Less muses drowsily, you're as likable as you're going to get.

Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world.

by now, he is well acquainted with humility. It is the one piece of luggage he has not lost.

If something or someone doesn't work, it's in a state of grace, progress, and evolution. It will attract love and empathy. If it does work, it has merely completed its job and is probably dead.

Some kinds of grace would not have entered the world if everyone's hips and legs worked the same way. Deformity has been brought into beauty's fold, a catalyst for justice rather than an affront to it.

Grace is not a shortcut around our effort; it is the divine blessing on efforts that are undertaken in dependence and trust on God.

Nothing is gained and much is lost when a life spirals into idolatry—no matter how much creative image bearing may also be preserved by the mysterious workings of common grace. Had Jobs been able to turn from his more extreme forms of god playing, his life might have yielded much more, not less, lasting cultural fruit.

It is better to forgive and lose than to face the consequences.

Every time God sent a new baby in the world, he was giving mankind another chance to make things right' Babies are a bundle of hope

who looked like she chewed on jasmines and spat out nails.