Quotes About Grace

2How blessed and relieved are those who have confessed their corruptionc to God!

this hope is not a disappointing fantasy,d because we can now experience the endless love of God cascading into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who lives in us!e

We are those who boast in what Jesus Christ has done, and not in what we can accomplish in our own strength.

there is no comparison between Adam's transgression and the gracious gift that we experience. For the magnitude of the gift far outweighs the crime.s It's true that many died because of one man's transgression, but how much greater will God's grace and his gracious gift of acceptance overflowt to many because of what one Man, Jesus, the Messiah, did for us!

Euodia comes from a word that means "a fair journey." Syntyche comes from a word that can mean "an accident." Along our fair journey we may collide with another, but God always has grace for restoration.

23The life that pleases me is a life lived in the gratitude of grace, always choosing to walk with me in what is right. This is the sacrifice I desire from you. If you do this, more of my salvation will unfold for you.

8But Christ proved God's passionate love for us by dying in our place while we were still lost and ungodly!

9Fools mock the need for repentance,b while the favor of God rests upon all his lovers.

My grace is always more than enough for you,j and my power finds its full expression through your weakness.

14For in the Son all our sins are canceled and we have the release of redemption through his very blood.

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Monica Swinton, twenty-nine, of graceful shape and lambent eye, went and sat in her living room, arranging her limbs with taste. She began by sitting and thinking; soon she was just sitting. Time waited on her shoulder with the maniac slowth it reserves for children, the insane, and wives whose husbands are away improving the world.

Angie thought God deserved prettier stationary.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

have seen the heart Move like a doe through the woods, move Like a stunned doe, deeper and deeper, Through trees that turn and close behind her, The way water closes over a dropped stone, Or a torn limb, or a lasting wound … from "Botticelli's St. Sebastian

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I took notes as they divided the world between those who had stuff taken away from them, and those who took, those who did bad things in a good way- gracefully, effortlessly- and those bumblers who bumbled their way through life.

You may rejoice to think yourselves secure, You may be grateful for the gift divine, That grace unsought which made your black hearts pure And fits your earthborn souls in Heaven to shine. But is it sweet to look around and view Thousands excluded from that happiness, Which they deserve at least as much as you, Their faults not greater nor their virtues less?

That none deserve eternal bliss I know: Unmerited the grace in mercy given, But none shall sink to everlasting woe That have not well deserved the wrath of Heaven.

Power and beauty come from a very deep place.

Who is the God that Christians worship? He is the God who loves and forgives. Surely Jesus demonstrated that truth on the cross. But how do we demonstrate this fact in our behavior? Our lives should be a living demonstration that we know a God who forgives.

Game of the Royal Way. I had discovered that when God supplied money He did it in a kingly manner, not in some groveling way. Three

Jesus said the standard was seventy times seven. I read somewhere that Dietrich Bonhoeffer explained it this way: "As long as you are counting, you haven't forgiven once." In

Funny how long it took us to learn the simple fact that God really is a Father, as displeased with a cramped, niggardly attitude of lack as with its opposite failing of acquisitiveness. ———