Quotes About Grace

By grace, God helps those who not only can't help themselves, they don't even want to. By grace, what goes around stops at the foot of the cross, never to come around again.

Bait-and-switch grace is just one more expression of human religion that tries to add effort and earning to God's finished work. It's grace with strings attached, and grace with strings attached isn't really grace at all (Romans 11:6; Galatians 2:15 – 21).

buried somewhere deep inside their souls. When God found them hiding in the garden, they were clutching clumps of leaves against their groins and blaming everyone but themselves for their failure. God's sovereign grace blossomed in that new-fallen garden for the same reason grace fills people's lives today. The untamed God gives undeserved mercy to unresponsive sinners. God shows grace, not due to any human deed or desire, but

that's not based on anything we have done, can do, or might do.17 It's not even a reward that God hands out to those who happen to choose him (Romans 9:16). It's God's wonderful acceptance of us not because we have

the gospel of grace can never be reduced to a doctrine that demands more human doing. The gospel of grace is a divine declaration that Jesus Christ has already secured all that's required to turn zombie corpses into chosen children. The only right response to such a glorious announcement is to discard every concern about what you must do, to cling desperately to what Christ has already done, and to call everyone around you to cling to Christ with you.

God's salvation is a gift. We were nothing but corpses on the run from God's reign. But God, in his grace, chased us down, overcame our resistance, and began to heal our sin-infected will. His grace gives us hearts of compassion, love for neighbors and friends, and it empowers us with boldness to share the message of redemption. God's grace is an overcoming grace.

What matters most in life isn't anything that you have done or can do. It's what God chooses to do for you through Jesus Christ.

The grace of the sovereign God has never waited for us to make the first move. Forbidden fruit was still fresh on our first parents' lips when God stepped into the Garden of Eden and lavished undeserved favor on them. At the very moment when Adam and Eve deserved death that never ends, God clothed them with the skin of a beast and promised them a Son whose triumph would grind the serpent's skull into the ground (Genesis 3:15, 21).

What left a mark No longer stings Because grace makes beauty Out of ugly things. U2, "Grace

Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve, and mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve.

We must seek to keep a right view of Jesus and to remember He is always after greater love.

He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins.

If I've learned one thing, its that we can't live in regret. God doesn't want that for our lives.~ Barrett Thorn

They deserve forgiveness. Everyone does.

Child," she said, not taking her gaze from the window, "God ain't waiting at no finish line. No, Jesus is running with you, caring more about the steps on the way than the big finish. Can't nobody impress God. Just look at what he created out there!

I don't want to miss all of God's little surprises because I'm tied in knots over something I can't change.

Hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts.

Miss Leighton." "Lord Charles?" He gave her that special smile that melted everything inside her. "You are an angel. And don't forget it." You

Smiles escape from clouds above and angels ring a chorus of your love.

You can't prevent mistakes, but you can solve problems graciously.

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

Dios, concédeme serenidad para aceptar las cosas que no puedo cambiar, valor para cambiar aquellas que puedo, y sabiduría para reconocer la diferencia.»

You can take God's viewpoint and call sin sin and still love the sinner.

God blesses us all with different views and perspectives and levels of influence and power.