Quotes About Grace

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. Mother Teresa

God helps me--that's what I think--and then I am calm.

It is too late for a politics based on law alone, too soon for a politics of grace which sublimates instinct.

History's most unusual and momentous news continues to be the message that the holy God provides sinful man a way of escape from the damning consequences of sin, and proffers him a new kind of life fit for both time and eternity. This ongoing global news is more important than the Allies' rollback of Hitler and the Nazis, or modern technology's putting a man on the moon, or scientific research's latest medical breakthrough.

Fred's question: 'Dr. Orr, what is one little word that would wipe out evil?' 'Fred, it's 'forgiveness,' ' his mentor said without hesitation. 'The only thing that evil cannot stand is forgiveness. It simply disintegrates in the presence of forgiveness.

The only thing that evil cannot stand is forgiveness. It simply disintegrates in the presence of forgiveness." Orr

May answers come to me by easeful attraction rather than stressful pursuit, and may all beings benefit from these inquiries.

Jessica DuLong's elegantly written "My River Chronicles" brings the past of the Hudson River into the vivid present, and carries forward the craft of literary non-fiction with grace and energy.

Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

we are not received by Jesus into a school of ethics but into a kingdom of redemption.

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you (Rom. 12:3). Paul's

we are not to judge each other in areas that are not specified by God as sin.

Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

more than that, the doctrine of vocation amounts to a comprehensive doctrine of the Christian life, having to do with faith and sanctification, grace and good works. It is a key to Christian ethics. It shows how Christians can influence their culture. It transfigures ordinary, everyday life with the presence of God.

Lutheran spirituality begins with the insight that all human effort to reach God is futile. The will, to use Luther's term, is in bondage—not only can we not fulfill the moral law perfectly, on the deepest level, we do not want to.

Our mediator claims all of our sins and has paid for them with His blood. He provides all of the good works we need, clothing us in His—not our—righteousness. This is what it means to be saved.

Human sin and God's grace are the two poles of Lutheran spirituality. To be sure, these are intrinsic to all of Christianity, but in Lutheranism they are both heightened. They are resolved in the principle by which, it is said, the church stands or falls: justification by grace through faith.

God does not transform you on a bed of light, life, and grace. His transformation is done on the cross in darkness, poverty, and death.

By cutting off pride and arrogance, He has acquired such a glorious body.

He told me to forget every good deed as though it had never occurred, as soon as it was accomplished, and go forward again as though I had never accomplished anything for Him, lest my good works become a snare to me. We saw some wonderful things in those days. Even very good men came to abhor themselves in the clearer light of God.

customers often bend over backward to give market share leaders second and third chances, bringing cries of anguish from their competitors who would never be granted such grace.

She is mirour of alle curteisye.

They take it wisly, faire, and softe.