Quotes About Grace

You couldn't ask more of a miracle than it was willing to give.

Motion is beauty and beauty is motionsless.

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.

Sorrow opens the gate to the Grace of God

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

The secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want.

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want." Brandon Stanton

Quienes tenemos la suerte de vivir en un mundo en el que tenemos lo suficiente y tenemos un techo y tenemos alimento, nos vemos atrapados en ese bucle de recordar los detalles equivocados.

justification by faith alone frees me to love my neighbor disinterestedly, for his or her own sake, as my sister or brother, not as the calculated means to my own desired ends.

For works do not drive out sin, but driving out of sin produces good works.

It is certain that one must utterly despair of oneself in order to be made fit to receive the grace of Christ.

That person is not righteous who does many works but who, without works, believes much in Christ.

Indeed, if pride would cease there would be no sin anywhere.

Terror" or "fright" (erschrecken) work first to destroy a person's self-centered claims before God, characterized by boasting in works and merits.

They cannot be humble who do not recognize that they are damnable and stinking sinners.

Nimmer tun ist höchster Buß),

You see, then, that the whole church is filled with the forgiveness of sins. But there are few who really receive and welcome it.o For they do not believe it and would rather rely upon their own works.

Open, Lord, my mouth to bless your holy name; cleanse my heart from all empty, evil, or distracting thoughts; enlighten my mind, enkindle my heart, that I may recite this Office worthily, attentively, and devoutly, and may merit to be heard in the sight of your divine majesty. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen." Latin

If we did not feel the bitterness of his anger, we would not so sweetly relish His love.

The one thing worth celebrating for all eternity is your redemption.

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah, to give you the inward rest of soul that only God can give. Only when I have sought my identity in the proper place (in my relationship with God) am I able to put you in the proper place as well. When I relate to you knowing that I am God's child and the recipient of his grace, I am able to serve and love you.

Only when you accept the bad news of the gospel does the good news make any sense. The grace, restoration, reconciliation, forgiveness, mercy, patience, power, healing, and hope of the gospel are for sinners. They are only meaningful to you if you admit that you have the disease and realize that it is terminal.

The decision to forgive is first a heart transaction between you and God. It is a willingness to give up your desire to hold onto (and in some way punish the person for) his offense against you. Instead, you entrust the person and the offense to God, believing that he is righteous and just. You make a decision to respond to this person with an attitude of grace and forgiveness.