Quotes About Grace

it is the discovery of the depths of weakness, the power of grace, and the price of both. Moreover, what takes place in the desert is not simply difficult travel and adventurous learning; it is repentance and conversion, the transformation of mixed motivations into purified desire, the greening of desert into garden through the living water of grace.

God gives us a gift, but then that gift has to be worked.

I would give illegal immigrants already here a three-month grace period to apply for a temporary worker's visa. If they failed to apply within that time frame, they would be considered fugitives, and they would be found and deported.

In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.

With dancing, it just brings out more flexibility, more core strength, and you definitely get a great workout.

My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.

I amp up my workout by doing Ballet Beautiful twice a day.

I just found such a love for dancing. If anybody would love to just feel great, not just physically, but you want to feel such confidence, just go and take a ballroom dancing class! I love it more than any kind of workout.

It's empowering to find a workout that builds strength and grace.

Ballet Beautiful is a workout that transforms the body without overtaxing the system or joints.

Stretching before and after every workout keeps muscles supple and helps elongate the lines of a ballerina's limbs.

I've learned that there are many people out there who want to feel powerful and strong on their own terms, who want to tune out the noise and the punishing nature of grueling workouts. With 'Ballet Beautiful,' we have peeled back the mystery of ballet and allowed people to do these workouts anywhere and in their own time.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word.

Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.

Jesus didn't hold people accountable; He just held them close - because it works better.

I hope not in works. I hope not in ethics. I hope not in baptisms or church membership. I hope in Christ alone.

I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.

Salvation is by repentance and faith, and if you have truly believed unto salvation, you have been regenerated, which means you have become a new creature, and you are going to live a different life. And so works do not result in salvation.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace.

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.