Grace Quotes - Page 45

It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.

He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.

I guess I am trying to get the point across that all of us are in need of salvation; that we are dead in our spirits and minds and need the grace that has been offered-no matter how good we think we are.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

Grace is the understanding that God is a better savior than you are a sinner.

My thoughts lead me in the direction of healing, prosperity, connection, and grace-filled experiences.

Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.

Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.

...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.

Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.

Grace isn't enough. You've got to intend to be there when it's happening.

Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.

Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?

There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.

But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.

Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.