Quotes About Grace

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.

Dear God: I didn't go to mass last Sunday morning. Signed: Conroy Conroy: Don't worry about it. It was a nice day. I don't know who built the church, but I made the sunshine. Signed: God

Dear God: Why do you let people grow old? Signed: Conroy Early the next morning, I retrieved his answer. Conroy: Although I've created all of you, I often find the way you think quite puzzling. For me, the most beautiful moment on earth is old people. They are my human sunsets. Signed: God

If you came to Christ, that was saving faith. Now then He wants you to have faith in His Word for assurance. That is simply to leave the matter with God and believe what He said.

God is ready and waiting to receive sinners who put their heart's trust in Jesus and want to be saved, and to pretend that He requires a long period of mourning and sorrow before He will accept a sinner and save him is contrary to the teaching of the Bible.

Sweet assurance of this truth is given. In Luke 23:39-43 we see how the repenting thief turned to Jesus on the cross beside him and said, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

The Ethereal Angels—these are the artists, the poets, the dancers. .

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

I rejoice that we have a Savior who had the goodness to come forth and redeem us and I rejoice that we have a Savior that yet looks forward to the redemption of the world.

God is love,and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Therefore, we certainly do good works, but not so that we merit anything by them. For what could we merit? But rather we are more and more bound to God for good works (if we do them), not God to us. For God is He Who "works in us both so that we desire, and also so that we work, according to His gratuitous goodness.

And so, we presume nothing whatsoever on account of ourselves or any of our merits, but having been supported only by the obedience of Christ crucified, we thoroughly acquiesce to it, so that when we believe in Him it becomes ours. Again, this alone is abundantly sufficient both for covering over all our iniquities and also for rendering us safe and secure against all temptation at the same time.

For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty, And all my ways are dewy wet With pleasant duty.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

Life isn't our possession, something we own. We're alive as we receive life from God, as the gift of his grace and mercy.

To say that we are under grace is to say that the final truth of our lives, the final authority by which we are made and judged, is Jesus Christ the mercy of God. If

The gospel is good news because it is God's action of disorienting goodness.

So this isn't in any sense acquittal through moral performance, or a reward for good conduct. It's not something earned by years of carefully crafted holiness. It's a wholly "free gift," as Paul says five times in the span of three verses.