Quotes About Grace

Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: "The Maker of all things loves and wants me.

God uses the talent pool available. None lived without sin and embarrassing failures. Yet somehow God used them to advance the cause of the kingdom.

True followers of God quietly humble themselves and rise again courageously.

El hecho de que el amor no opera bajo las reglas del poder ayudaría a explicar por qué a veces parece como si Dios sintiera timidez en cuanto a utilizar su propio poder.

the kingdom of God largely exists for the sake of outsiders, as a tangible expression of God's love for all.

God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.

When we make condescending judgments, or proclaim lofty words that don't translate into action, or simply speak without first listening, we fail to love — ?and thus deter a thirsty world from Living Water. The good news about God's grace goes unheard.

We do not give up on the institution of family because of its imperfections-why give up on the church?

God does not seek the people most outwardly capable, nor the most naturally "good." He works with the most unlikely material so that everyone can see the glory is his and his alone.

grace happens at unexpected moments. It stops us short, catches the breath, disarms. If we manipulate it, try to control it, somehow earn it, that would not be grace.

Moralism apart from grace solves little.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to communicate the message of grace from the corridors of power.

God has entrusted flawed human beings with a message so powerful that it sometimes does its work in spite of us.

The novelist Reynolds Price says there is one sentence above all that people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me. Christians still believe in that truth.

What would it take for church to become known as a place where grace is "on tap

Grace has its own power, even in international politics.

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten

It makes all the difference in the world whether I view my neighbor as a potential convert or as someone whom God already loves.

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it

Grace is unfair, which is one of the hardest things about it.

Grace, however, is not about fairness.

Only forgiveness frees us from the injustice of others.

A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses.

when we appeal to God's grace and compassion the fearsome God soon disappears.