Grace Quotes - Page 71

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with the mundane tasks of her Carmelite convent: the washing of pots, the sweeping of floors, the folding of laundry. At some point of grace, the mundane became for her a sort of prayer, a way she could experience her ever-present connection to the divine pattern which is the source of life. She began then to see the face of God in the folded sheets.

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so eminent that they are owed in condign [deserved] judgment that which is given freely. Would it not be a debasement of redemption in Christ’s blood, and would not God’s mercy be made secondary to human works, if justification, which is through grace, were owed in view of preceding merits, so that it were not the gift of a Donor, but the wages of a laborer?

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.

Grace! 'tis a charming Sound, Harmonious to my Ear! Heav'n with the Echo shall resound, And all the Earth shall hear.

God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.

The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

My ultimate style icon is Grace Jones.

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace.

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

As Paul argues, it is the righteousness of God that is revealed in the law, and this condemns us all (Ro 1:18 - 3:20), while the gospel reveals the righteousness from God, namely, that we "are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Ro 3:24).

God sends his angels to protect us and his Word as a star to guide us. Then he surrounds us with his grace. We become his depot, the distribution point of God's gifts.

Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.

It's easier for our brains to have a list of rules and say, "If we keep these rules, we're in, and if we don't keep these rules, we're out." The problem with grace is that it doesn't play by the rules. It covers sin, and it washes away shame. It releases you from self-hatred. You then realize, through grace in Jesus, and believing in Jesus, and agreeing with Jesus, that you evidently were worth dying for.

Grace has a grand laughter in it.

Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.

I’m not looking for self-control.