Grace Quotes - Page 18

For he who has died has been freed from sin...14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation.

The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, “I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God, I am what I am.

Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.

'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces

When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.

God's truth tells us the truth about ourselves, but His grace forgives us for the truth He reveals.

This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

No religion has a separate God showering grace only on those who profess to abide by that faith.

Grace cannot forgive unconfessed sin.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

A Church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy, thirsty for grace, receiving from The Lord and the body of Christ, and then gratefully receiving what she needs as she offers her praise- the only proper response to the God who saves us.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.

Grace keeps us from worrying because worry deals with the past, while grace deals with the present and future.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.

A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true human and happy life, for it is filled with concerns that are as deep as life, as wide as the whole world, and as far reaching as eternity. It is only when we have consented to love, and have agreed to forget ourselves, that we can find our fulfillment. This fulfillment will come unperceived and mysterious like the grace of God, but we will recognize it and it will be recognized in us.