Quotes About Grace

When I ask God to change my actions, that honesty about my own inconsistent behaviors forces me not to be so hard on other believers. Humble acknowledgment of the plank in my own eye gives me more patience with the specks in everyone else's (see Matthew 7:1-5). Instead of pointing the finger at others, let's allow God to examine us.

Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worry about sorting it out later.

God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.

I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.

Los cristianos ateos podemos buscar la lógica de todo tipo de excusas posibles con tal de no perdonar. Sin embargo, los cristianos pueden encontrar en Dios la fuerza que les hace falta para luchar contra los sentimientos de ira, odio y amargura, y abrirse paso así de regreso a la cruz.

He blesses us so we can be different.

That is who you are. God said so. You may fear you have screwed everything up, but the depth of your sin is not greater than God's power to forgive.

Today I get to experience God's strength when I am weak. He gives me everything I need to do what he's called me to do. Rather than a busy, bad day, I'm going to have a positive, productive one.

Accountability requires the internal strength of honesty. We have to be strong enough to hear the honest questions and answer them honestly. We have to be strong enough to ask honest questions and hear honest answers, reacting appropriately and with grace and respect. Without honesty, there is no accountability, pure and simple.

I took the luxury of watching the crows playing tag above our heads for a moment more, the graceful arc of their patterns intertwining in figure eights of infinity. That was probably our job here, to keep going and to do it with as much artistry and beauty as our hearts could bear.

Sure, sir, I will," I promised, "but I just want to tell you first that Jesus loves you." While

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Everything we will ever need for life and eternity has already been placed within our spirits.

All my life I've been waiting to understand. Look what God has done for me!

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Life has its own rhythms, we just have to learn how to dance!

la Delfina se cayó al suelo cuando montaba sobre un asno, dijo riendo: Id a buscar a madame Noailles, ella os dirá que ordena la etiqueta cuando una reina de Francia no sabe mantener el equilibrio sobre un asno. María Antonieta, Reina de Francia

We have a Savior Who took on our humanity to take on our shame. We have a God Who knows the pain of betrayal, abandonment, humiliation, and violence, Who shows us that wounds can be healed and can be purified. It's okay if your past is messy.

graces. No matter what your future may be, now is not meant to be a time of waiting. Instead, God is teaching you something each step along the way, preparing you to take His hand and walk with Him, trusting that God will lead you to healing.

We don't always recognize mercy when we see it. It isn't always what we want or think we need, but it's there. It's here.

the key insight for now is that we will miss Jesus' solution if we follow some narrative that pushes everything out toward external blame. Such a narrative is like a faulty sign pointing us away from Jesus because his acceptance of us takes place inside us—it doesn't happen "out there.

Foolishness is the human condition, and exactly what God handles best.

Ask the Divine to replace any energies that aren't your own—whether these energies are emotional only, mental only, or a partnership of the two—with a healing stream of grace. (The Spirit- to-Spirit technique given in chapter 4 is a good way to separate and release others' emotional energies.) Request also that your own feelings and beliefs, those lodged in and pertinent to your spiritual self, become animate and accessible.

If our spiritual boundaries are intact, we will know ourselves as spiritual beings, no matter the condition of our lives. Whether we are sick or in good health, depressed or happy, in a primary relationship or alone, we will know ourselves as part of the spiritual family of the living and the passed, the visible and invisible, the natural and the supernatural. We will be assured of grace, the optimum goal of life, or peace in the midst of anything.