Quotes About Grace

When the people of a congregation zealously hold convictions about time and space, the church will begin to change (and change fast)! There is a powerful grace that comes with the belief that this mortal life is terrifyingly brief and the life after death is gloriously infinite. This profound conviction moves the church to become a people of radical action, urgency, unction, and even risk.

While many people love you because or love you if, God loves you period.

The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.

Mrs. Darling to May Pentecost who showed Mrs. Darling her room: "I shall unpack my china in here, if your husband will be kind enough to bring it up. I do think it's important to be surrounded by pretty things, don't you?

we know how much we are allowing ourselves to experience the hesed of God based on how much we give it out to others.

Beating God to the punch involves willingly bending one's life to Jesus now, and forever.

God not only saves us from something, He also saves us for something.

Grace is not merely an esoteric theological concept, but it is seen and defined most vehemently in a person.

Beating God to the punch is about reaching out for what you could have never earned, achieved, or deserved.

And if God was willing to go to the cross and endure such pain and absorb such a cost in order to save us, then we must live sacrificially as we serve others. Anyone who truly understands how God's grace comes to us will have a changed life. That's the gospel, not salvation by law, or by cheap grace, but by costly grace. Costly grace changes you from the inside out. Neither law nor cheap grace can do that.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

But we know that true grace comes to us by costly sacrifice. And if God was willing to go to the cross and endure such pain and absorb such a cost in order to save us, then we must live sacrificially as we serve others. Anyone who truly understands how God's grace comes to us will have a changed life. That's the gospel, not salvation by law, or by cheap grace, but by costly grace. Costly grace changes you from the inside out. Neither

If someone believes it is our faith that heals us and forgets that it is God who does it, we should ask that person how much faith Lazarus had. Remember, he was decomposing in a tomb when Jesus raised him from death. His faith obviously didn't matter. It was all God. It is God and God's grace that heals, not our prayers and not our "faith." Though we are exhorted by God to pray to him, we cannot compel him to do what we wish. DO

Se estaba dirigiendo sobre todo a su propia gente, que entendía que expulsar a los judíos de la iglesia no era correcto. Entonces apeló a Romanos 14 y a la idea del «hermano más débil» en la iglesia, que requería gracia adicional y mejor lugar

so true is it that a gracious hand leads us in ways that we know not, and blesses us not only without, but even against, our plans and inclinations.

The message of grace," he said, ". . . pronounces upon the death of people and nations its eternal: I have loved you from eternity; stay with me, and you will live.

the idea that the God of the universe would humble himself to touch the lives of any of us is, in the end, far beyond our full comprehension.

The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for me. 'These words struck through my heart, and I knew that God for Christ's sake had forgiven me all my sins.' - Susanna Wesley

Costly grace changes you from the inside out. Neither law nor cheap grace can do that.

To be true to God in the deepest way meant having such a relationship with him that one did not live legalistically by "rules" or "principles." One could never separate one's actions from one's relationship to God. It was a more demanding and more mature level of obedience, and

Luther was trying to call the church back to its true roots, to a biblical idea of a merciful God who did not demand that we obey but who first loved us and first made us righteous before he expected us to live righteously.

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

Luther used this as an illustration of how even when God reached out to us in love and grace, we are often so suffused with the idea of him as a stern judge bent on punishing us that we tragically shrink from his loving grasp, thus to our own sad detriment denying ourselves the very thing for which we long.

he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.*