Quotes About Grace

I don't know. Maybe I just believe in second chances.

It's always the kindnesses that finish you off.

I had been wrong when I said Liza McCullen wasn't beautiful: when she smiled she was stunning.

And because, most crazy of all, all that kindness, all that magnificence, was sitting there just because of his words

I thought about a man who moved silently and easily through life, confident that it would always work his way.

I'm dying, Louisa. I'm an old woman and I'm not going to get an awful lot older, and my son, who I thought was lost to me, has been gracious enough to swallow his pain and his pride and reach out. Can you imagine? Can you imagine what it is to have someone do that for you?

Be kind to yourself. You're only human.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.) It

But the women in this ballroom looked as if they made their appearance a full-time job.

more decorous manner

She looked like a human racehorse.

No. No, don't be sorry. It's

We need to realize that Jesus Christ came to die for our sin and to pay the price for our iniquity. If He never does anything else in this life presently, that is more than enough to merit our loyalty, our affection, our devotion. If He never does another thing for me, if He never gives another blessing to me, I owe Him my life because of what He did on Calvary.

Christianity is not a philosophy, or theology, its Christ."-Jon Courson 5/15/19

the selfless disregard of reward brings the greatest reward. There is room for reward and punishment within a structure of covenantal love, but there is no room for genuine covenantal love premised on reward and punishment alone.

To die with dignity does not require company

I was reminded that retribution does not break cycles of violence and injustice, but grace might.

The reason God wants you to be His son or daughter is that He wants you to be free. Free from pressure. Free from worry. Free from comparison. Free from sin. Free to be . . . you. Who you are is not determined by what you do. Who you are is determined by whose you are.

I am a great sinner," said the dying Newton, "but Christ is a great Savior.

In the light of its recent history and usage, "Amazing Grace" has sometimes been called "the spiritual national anthem of America." It is a description that can be applied even more widely on an international canvas, for the hymn soars above most boundaries as a simple celebration of the experience of grace. In principle it can be, and is, sung with this meaning not only by Christians but by Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and people of no particular faith.

Whenever and wherever the doctrines of free grace and justification by faith have prevailed in the Christian Church, and according to the degree of clearness with which they have been enforced, the practical duties of Christianity have flourished in the same proportion.

It's time for America to move and to speak, not with boasting and belligerence, but with a quiet strength—to depend in world affairs not merely on the size of an arsenal but on the nobility of ideas—and to govern at home not by confusion and crisis but with grace and imagination and common sense.

Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.

In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.