Grace Quotes - Page 24

[Grace] is given not to make us something other than ourselves but to make us radically ourselves. Grace is given not to implant in us a foreign wisdom but to make us alive to the wisdom that was born with us in our mother’s womb. Grace is given not to lead us into another identity but to reconnect us to the beauty of our deepest identity. And grace is given not that we might find some exterior source of strength but that we might be established again in the deep inner security of our being and in learning to lose ourselves in love for one another to truly find ourselves.

To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.

Grace is never cheap. It is absolutely free to us, but infinitely expensive to God... Anyone who is prone to use grace as a license for irresponsible, sinful behavior, surely does not appreciate the infinite price God paid to give us His grace.

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ is too common.

When your humanness is confronted by the magnificence and holiness of God, you are made SO aware of your need for God’s grace...Romans 12:1 teaches us how to live this life of worship and love.

There's no end to amazing grace.

There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable.

Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, 'Salvation is free, but not cheap.' It cost Jesus His life.

Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.

The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

The trick is to begin looking for the grace hidden beneath the struggle.

Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.

Grace grows best in winter.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.