Quotes About Grace

God is love so all God does is loving.

God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.

Forgiveness should go hand-in-hand with love.

[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love.

We are all bastards but God loves us anyway.

Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

Before we can experience the pure & serene state of love, we must learn how to give forgiveness - to ourselves & to others. Have you forgiven yourself?

God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastlingly.

You may not be able to measure God's love, but you can certainly experience it.

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.

Young people with terminal illnesses develop a whimsical, slightly sarcastic sense of humor about it to put everyone else at ease and to serve as shining examples of grace in the face of colossally fucked-up events.

you don't have to live in community long to realize that lives which are blessed and instructive are still flawed. The grace of the gospel isn't only that the Word was made flesh in Jesus, but also that the eternal Word is made present in weak and wonderful people.

Leave some room in your theology for God to be bigger than you can explain

it would seem that these super-religious ascetics would be extremely so. But the witness of everyone who visited them for counsel was the opposite. They were some of the most gracious souls the world has ever known. The story is told of an Abba

we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.

Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.

The weaker I am, the harder I must lean on God's grace; the harder I lean on him, the stronger I discover him to be, and the bolder my testimony to his grace.

They were teaching the horse to work cattle, and Graver showed her son how to ride in concert with the animal, not against it. She saw that was the way a person must move through the world, while across the hills, the evening fog drifted like an exhaled breath and the peepers began their rhythmic chirring music as the night horses pulled the dark curtain across the sky until they slept and awakened once more, rising like dreamers out of the mist to claim the world again.