Quotes About Grace

Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 THESSALONIANS 5 : 18

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." —JOHN 14:27

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." —MATTHEW

The rest of this story is recorded in Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." —Matthew 5:3 NKJV

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. —Ephesians 2:8

Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! —2 Corinthians 9:15

The true lady treats the whole world as her dance floor,

Mum" for beautiful and "taz" for royal.

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Any artist should be grateful for a nave grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

The question: What is a Christian? My answer: A Christian is someone who follows Jesus* My former answer: A Christian is someone who has accepted Jesus, and the Christian life focuses on personal practices of piety.

Jesus is teaching a kingdom perspective on how to deal with those who have sinned against us. Since the kingdom is a world of reconciliation, kingdom people are to forgive.

He's staring into the face of fellow Israelites who don't know the grace of enemy love and who want to appeal too quickly to the lex talionis or who want to become judges like God (7:1–5; cf. Jas 4:11–12). Moreover, that same audience needed to hear that forgiveness is the way kingdom living works. Those who genuinely love others forgive. Those who don't are not kingdom people.

Jesus sufferes to sympathize with our sufferings.

There is something about the Sermon on the Mount that makes Christians nervous, and in particular it makes Protestants nervous, especially those whose theology's first foot is a special understanding of grace.

He experiences for us what we do not want but deserve (slavery and death), and provides for us what we do want but don't deserve (a life of freedom).

What is not out of the question is that what the world sees as a grotesque image, the cross, has become for Christians a place of grace

when we peer into our own hearts, we will have sufficient cause — even laughably ridiculous cause — to see our own sin and be humbled before God. That will lead us to an other-awareness that our fellow disciples and humans are like us, sinners in need of mercy, grace, forgiveness, and patience. This reversal of the proclivity to be gods creates on our part a tenderness in our perception of the sins of others.

There's a difference between focusing on being right and focusing on being a follower of Jesus.

Since we are committed in the church to the scriptural revelation as the norming norm, we need to remind ourselves that our task ultimately is to conserve the gospel revealed in Christ by addressing our world in its local manifestation with the grace of God. We will discover that we each have something to say about that grace and for our world.

We are saved by Christ, but Christ saves us into discipleship.