Quotes About Grace

Elizabeth, it comes down to this: Jesus shed His blood on the cross. He died for you, even when you did not deserve it. And He rose from the grave and offers forgiveness and salvation for anyone who turns to Him. But the Bible also says that we can't ask Him to forgive us while refusing to forgive others.

Miracles come out of rest. Resting in knowing who we are. It's who we are that defines us, not what we do. If we allow what we do to define who we are, then we are heading for trouble. Miracles are not done for identity; they are because of our identity.

Pirate booty," said Grace. "You mean gold doubloons or those cheesy corn puffs?

A stalactite holds tight to the ceiling," said Jake proudly. "A stalagmite might climb up to the ceiling someday." Grace and Kojo remained silent. Finally, Kojo exploded. "That's it?" "Uh, yeah.

Bat guano," said Jake. "What's guano?" asked Kojo. "A fancy word for 'poop,' " said Grace.

When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.

I work hard, but I work from a position of rest.

The anointing puts you over, because you now belong in the Kingdom of wisdom and knowledge.

God has not only made the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has actually given Him to us.

Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it?

With the Holy Spirit, you have it made! For you, life is already successful.

Until you respond to God by faith, you do not receive from Him, because God is a faith-God.

When you're anointed, you become blessed of God such that everything you touch or do prospers. To be "blessed" means to be empowered to prosper.

God has not only made the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has actually given Him to us. It's up to us now to receive Him. But for you to receive from God, you will have to be ready to respond to Him by faith. Until you respond to God by faith, you do not receive from Him, because God is a faith-God.

If the Holy Spirit takes over your family, your business or your health, it doesn't matter what troubles you've been experiencing or what's been going wrong, you will begin to go from strength to strength, from grace to grace, from faith to faith, from success to success and from greatness to greatness. When the Holy Spirit takes over your life, He'll drive every sickness out of your body; He'll make right everything that was wrong.

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

dem Leben ins Gesicht zu sehen, älter und doch nicht härter zu werden." (33)

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

We are not saying that final salvation is unconditional. It is not. We must meet the condition of faith, for example, in Christ in order to inherit eternal life. But faith is not a condition for election. Just the reverse. Election is a condition for faith. It is because God chose us before the foundation of the world that he purchases our redemption at the cross, and then gives us spiritual life through irresistible grace, and brings us to faith.

If we want to go deeper in our experience of God's grace this is an ocean of love for us to enjoy. God does not mean for the bride of his Son to only feel loved with general, world-embracing love. He means for her to feel ravished with the specificity of his affection that he set on her before the world existed.

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

To put it bluntly, it is not the words of the Bible that are 'the way, the truth, and the life.' It is the person of Christ, to whom the Bible witnesses."[168]

Spirit or Source is our true Beloved, who will always accept, forgive, and love us.