Grace Quotes - Page 47

Each of us is accountable to God for our personal holiness. Humbling yourself by letting others into your life and allowing them to help you and hold you accountable will release the sanctifying, transforming grace of God in your life.

He had a face like a blessing.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude.

Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.

All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

I realize how desperately I need grace, therefore I try to lavishly give it.

There is no rest in the heart of God until He knows that you are at resh in His grace.

Though your experience may indicate that God has forgotten you or has left you alone, He is on your side. He is the God of grace, and He is actively working on your behalf.

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Give us grace to listen well.

I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul said in Romans 11:6, "And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace." Our relationship with God is based on either works or grace. There is never a works-plus-grace relationship with Him.

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.