Quotes About Grace

Because of God, even the imperious ballbreakers, moralizing windbags, and meddling assholes may know love.

How rare it is, even among Christians, for a person to say "I was wrong. I sinned, and I'm fully responsible. My sinful desires motivated me, and what I did dishonored God and hurt you. Please forgive me.

He chose to love us. He chose to lay down His life for us. The danger of believing that you "fall in love" is that it also means you can "fall out of love" just as unexpectedly. Aren't you glad that God's love for us isn't as unpredictable?

If Jesus loves the church, you and I should, too. We can't use the excuse that the church has messed up too many times or that we're disillusioned. Jesus is the only person who has the right to disown and give up on the church. But He never has. And He never will.

No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.

see 1 John 1:8–9; Romans 10:9; Ephesians 2:8–9).

The truth is that Jesus didn't come to rescue us from our humanity; He entered into our humanity to rescue us from our sinfulness. He didn't come to save us from being sexual creatures; He became one of us to save us from the reign of sin and lust, which ruins our sexuality. That

Don't concern yourself with being right in others' eyes. And don't secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don't have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you.

Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us.

Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.

Here were the pained and hopeful voices of people who knew despair was life and life was despair—and grace was there for the taking.

We are saved not because we are worthy. We are saved because we are loved.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Age is not ugly, just poignant.

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally important to Him.

Have God make a message out of your mess.

will not criticize or find fault with myself or others.

La aceptación serena de la tragedia, este pasearse tranquilamente entre el más acá y el Más Allá, es lo que daba al español de antaño su gravedad honda, su aplomo honrado y sufriente, su firmeza ante la adversidad. El español de antaño sabía que el más acá es un valle de lágrimas que hay que caminar con entereza, para ser digno acreedor de un Más Allá de caricias encendidas y venas vibradoras

Era uno de esos pobres niños a quienes no llega nunca el don de la palabra ni el regalo de la gracia; niño alegre él y triste de ver, todo para su madre, nada para los demás

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

El veterano sintió ganas de celebrar algo; que fuese su cumpleaños, por ejemplo. Pero no. Daba lástima desaprovechar tanto cielo celeste y limpio, regalar el aire a la desgracia o los malentendidos.

I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.

She looked like what all women wanted to grow up to look like:

Beauty knows no time', he said softly, rising, and kissing her hand.