Quotes About Grace

If I consciously live in light of the fact that I am full in Christ, I will ask for forgiveness whether or not I get to watch the game.

For too many of us, our sense of identity is more rooted in our performance than it is in God's grace.

Forgiveness Is Costly, But Not Forgiving Is More Costly

Though we are to be wise, we are not to fear the world in which God has placed us. Yes, things will get messy. But if you are humbled by the messiness of sin in your own life, yet confident in God's grace to change you, you will not be afraid to get close to other sinners who need that same grace. God will use the messiness you encounter in others to spur your own growth in the gospel.

An entrenched refusal to forgive is a sign that you have not known God's amazing forgiveness yourself.

Why is the process of forgiveness so important? Because even if you have forgiven someone for an offense, you will be tempted to think about it the next time you see her, or the next time she sins against you. Without realizing it, you will pile that sin on top of the old sins. This makes it harder and harder to forgive someone.

Forgiveness is not forgetting

Forgiveness has a vertical and a horizontal dimension

When I consider someone's sin as I stand before the Lord, I am called to have an attitude of forgiveness toward the person who sinned against me. This is non-negotiable.

Luke 17:3, on the other hand, is talking about forgiveness as a horizontal transaction between me and the offender. This is often referred to as reconciliation.

I can only grant forgiveness to the other person if he repents and admits he has sinned against me.

After we ate our heaping slice of humble pie, we asked the missus if she could at least serve it up a la mode next time.

We find for a moment, here and there, those amazing times where the companionship of another resists the aloneness. It can be as simple as the grace note of a stranger holding the door for you. Or it can be as deep and complex as the bond of a soul mate who understands every nuance of your struggle with the world and gives you complete love of mind and body. Yet, in the end we're still alone.

Non pas aimée parce que belle, mais belle parce qu'aimée.

People can't do miracles and are not responsible to do miracles, but people can pick up miracles from God and hand it to another person - a miracle happens when that occurs.

I look in the mirror and see new lines every day, I'll see the odd grey hair - but this is life.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

The seasoned woman is going to offer a more seasoned character.

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

If you had a friend going through a lot, you wouldn't give them a hard time for going through it. You'd be like, it's ok you're going through it. So offer yourself the same grace and dignity that you'd offer to others.

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.

Your characters can do the worst things on Earth - cut to a happy baby, it ends up being OK.

I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.