Race Quotes - Page 128

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.

People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.

I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship's keel is off, we find a way to steer ourselves through the storm repeatedly.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.

I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.

The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Verily the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.

Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek our fans' favor, grace them with our smiles, or catch their kisses. We are unforgiving. And I love it. Getting to be myself at last.

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.