Quotes About Grace

Not many men can have been so loved or have been forgiven so much [...]

And I remember some passage being read out somewhere, that there's no sinner so bad, so worthless, that God will ever let them slip through the net of his love... And whether he's up there or not, and whether he's got a net I don't know. But I think it's how it ought to be just between us. There ought to be at least one other person who won't let us slip through their net. No matter what we do, no matter what we've done. It's not a question of right or wrong. It's not a question of justice.

I remembered the ancient flowers Charles had given me near Trés Haut Médoc, cut from the Glass Sea beds. Now he offered me a bouquet of stars. After the weariness and grief, Charles could still take my breath away.

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

Unbelievers are not the enemy—they are people for whom Christ died. We need to remember we were each one of them once.

Like the prodigal's father, God accepts us as we are. But He doesn't want to leave us that way. God will change us.

We all come to Christ differently. Andrew and John found Jesus through a preacher's message. Simon Peter and Nathanael came to Jesus as the result of the personal efforts of another believer. In the case of Philip, there was no human instrument used by God. He literally met Jesus in the middle of a regular day. It didn't matter what these men were looking for. What they found was Jesus.

Like John Kennedy said, though, 'Forgive thy enemies but remember their names.

Kindness can be a weakness, Grace. Please listen to me. Don't get me wrong. I don't want you to be harsh, uncaring. Not at all. I don't want you to be indifferent to the needs of others. I just don't want you to put anyone else above yourself.

Allow lightness and balance to be your guide.

Posture is steadiness and ease.

Hear Jesus say, "Jill, I will never hurt you or shame you. I told you I will never leave you nor forsake you. Never! I love you with an everlasting and perfect love." Can you hear Jesus say this? JILL: Yes. GREG: Hear him say

This is what the kingdom of God looks like. It looks like humility. It looks like grace. It looks like service. It looks like Jesus.

Thus, to take the phrases in Acts and make them into a magical incantation upon which God s forgiveness rests is to grossly misunderstand the phrase and, consequently, grossly misportray the kind of God whom Scripture reveals. Beyond

The challenge, then, is not first and foremost to love like Christ. The challenge is to live in Christ's love, for only then can we love as Christ loved. And as with everything else about our lives, this can only be done in each present moment.

Never suppose that God is more "there" than "here," or more "then" than "now." For the Father is always working—in all places, at all times, in all people. The steadfast love of God fills the entire earth (Psalm 33:15).

The extent to which we experience our freedom from condemnation in Christ is the extent to which we will realize there is no life in performing.

God wants everyone to be saved. He takes no delight in the destruction of any soul, however wicked (Ezek. 18:32; 33:11). From

When New Testament authors stress that salvation is not arrived at by works, as first-century Jews, these authors are referring to works of the law. They are saying that God's righteousness does not come by external obedience to the law, as some Jews of their day supposed.

The picture of God that I embraced could get me to feel shame for my sinful deeds, but it could not empower me to rise above them.

2. Faith and pride. If people think that sanctification adds anything to their justification, there is room for them to become spiritually prideful. At the very least, they can begin to congratulate themselves that they are less in need of God's sheer grace than they once were and no doubt less in need than other believers now are.

But a lady forced is never a lady won

There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor. -- Abdullah

The word family is derived from the word famulus, meaning a servant, and in its early usage, familia, it literally meant the servants of a household. In its essence, the longing for family, and the ravenousness that the loss of family creates in us, isn't just for belonging: it's for the grace that abides in serving those we love.