Grace Quotes - Page 82

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our Lord how our meekness should always be accompanied by humility and grace so as to attract hearts to Him and not cause anyone to turn away from Him.

The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.

My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.

God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction.

Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.

Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.

God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again.

Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless.

On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.

So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.

It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.