Quotes About Grace

The law says, 'do this,' and it is never done. Grace says, 'believe in this,' and everything is already done.

the person whose life is falling apart and who is thus tempted to despair needs to know Christ, and knowing Christ requires knowing who he is and what he has done. In

Thus, he is to show people that all their righteousness is as filthy rags and as reliable a leaning post as a spider's web; and that, counterintuitive and countercultural as it may be, true righteousness, mercy, and grace are to be found in the filthy and broken corpse of a man condemned as a criminal to hang on a cross. This is the preaching of law and gospel, and it carries with it transformative power.

We must hold firmly to the conviction that God gives no one his Spirit or grace except through or with the external Word.

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not.

Oh, well, she decided as her eyes began to close, it is better to love foolishly than to hate bitterly. I hope I am wiser than I was and more kind.

What makes you so arrogant to think that Christ's Atonement is for everyone else in the history of the world except you?

Such watering pots,' Lord Ragsdale commented as he handed each of them ahandkerchief, then pressed a third to his eye. 'See here, you have set me a bad example.' He grinned at Tim. 'But I will practice economy and cry out of only one eye.

Thus, after so many years, I feel I have found the solution to the only real problem we have on earth. I have recognized my powerlessness and this was grace. In faith, hope and love I have contemplated the all-power-fulness of God and this, too, was grace. God can do everything and I can do nothing. But if I offer this nothing in prayer to God, everything becomes possible in me.

As long as I waste time defending myself I get nothing done and I am not truly Christian; I do not know the depths of the heart of Jesus. To forgive, really forgive, means convincing ourselves deep down that we merited the wrong done to us.

se c'è un modo di essere materno, dove non traspare nessun sentimentalismo, questo era il suo:

El perdón no es un sentimiento, es una decisión. Si usted quiere perdonar, el Señor le ayudará a hacerlo. He

When we bring self-compassion into everyday life, we learn to be kind to ourselves.

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

But I found steel beneath his soft-spoken manner. I could not break him. Despite his struggles with the tasks I set him, he lived with everything of gentleness and grace.

I want to urge you to consider your own limitations not as obstacles but as opportunities for God to show his limitless power and unlimited love.

You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.

There is a French expression: "Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner." To understand all is to forgive all.

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I still believe that everyone is beautiful in some way and by seeing the beauty in others we make ourselves more beautiful.

One in whom goodness is dominant moves through the world as a swan does through water, never drenched or dragged down, but rather buoyant, tranquil, treating all experience equally. That person generates virtue as a spider spins its threads. Such a person knows true happiness.

She was never overcome by drabness or squalor. She never glamorized anything; yet she saw the loveliness in everything.

and if anyone was ever going to live eternally in the light, I think it would be you.

you're a butterfly and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high away, bye-bye),