Quotes About Grace

Berbahagialah orang yang berbakat menjalin persahabatan, karena hal itu merupakan salah satu karunia Tuhan yang terbaik. Menjalin persahabatan meliputi banyak kemampuan, terutama untuk tidak mementingkan diri sendiri dan untuk menghargai keluhuran jiwa serta daya tarik orang lain.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

Gifts of the Holy Spirit grow in direct proportion to the depth and sincerity of our love.

Where are you?" God's question to us never changes. In some cases, life has been so tragic that we are not free to decide where we are. But the power of divine grace, especially as it is experienced in contemplative prayer, opens us to the unconscious and introduces us to a world of unlimited possibilities that are unknown to us now.

the radical healing is the acceptance of the situation, because in some way God is present there.

When we taste the goodness of God and experience the humility that arises spontaneously from that relationship, the programs glorified by the false self and our cultural conditioning diminish in size and no longer exercise the fascination that used to hold them in place.

We know in spite of our weakness that God will give us the strength to get through every trial and temptation. "As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you" (John 15:9).

What good does it do to speak learnedly about the Trinity if, lacking humility, you displease the Trinity? Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone.

One might suppose from such a beginning that Friday is to be a futuristic James Bond adventure. It's not, though the action is often of that ilk. However, the action is rarely anything but icing on the cake and rarely servees to advance the plot. There is a plot, though the author contrives with great grace to let it all take place in the reader's peripheral vision.

he'd spent his whole life trying to make God love him—and that this didn't matter in the slightest. All that mattered was that he loved God. He told me that once he knew this he was home free.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.

A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

We are justified by faith alone, but not by faith that is alone.

Our only hope is the gospel, for there we rest on what Christ has done for us instead of boasting in ourselves.

The central truth in this paragraph is that right standing with God does not come from keeping the law (since everyone sins), but only through faith in Jesus Christ. Thus, all those who revert to the law only display their own sinfulness in returning to a covenant that has passed away, and hence they end up rejecting the grace of God given in the cross of Jesus Christ.

We live by faith alone, casting ourselves entirely on the grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. Christ is our righteousness; his cross is our only hope in the day of judgment.

Human beings do choose to believe, but they make that choice only because divine grace opens otherwise blind eyes to see the beauty of the glory of Christ (2 Cor. 4:6).

God deserves all the praise, glory, and honor for our salvation. He saved us "to the praise of his glorious grace" (Eph. 1:6, 12, 14). We would never have chosen him on our own, and thus we bow down before our sovereign God with joy and holy fear.

I no way doubt but that many men do receive more grace from God than they understand or will own, and have a greater efficacy of it in them than they will believe. Men may be really saved by that grace which doctrinally they do deny; and they may be justified by the imputation of that righteousness, which, in opinion, they deny to be imputed: for the faith of it is included in that general assent which they give unto the truth of the gospel,

If they rely on circumcision for salvation, they cannot lean on Christ for the same. No middle way exists between circumcision and Christ. If the Galatians turn to circumcision, they lose Christ and all his benefits.