Quotes about grace

God's demand: 'be righteous' God's diagnosis: 'no one is righteous' God's deliverance: 'Jesus is our righteousness.

Commandments are the railroad tracks on which the life empowered by the love of God poured into the heart by the Holy Spirit runs. Love empowers the engine law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology it is poor psychology. It has to borrow from law to give eyes to love.

I don't like this war. I don't like the cold-blooded scheming at the beginning and the carnage at the end and the grumbling and the jealousies and the pettishness in the middle. I hate the lack of gallantry and grace the self-seeking the destruction of valuable people and things. I believe in danger and endeavor as a form of tempering but I reject it if this is the only shape it can take.

Fame comes and goes knowledge comes and stays. But none of them safeguard us against danger it’s only the GRACE of God that keeps us in safety!

Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon it only shines because the sun is there.

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

Men promise freedom while establishing laws God promises laws while establishing freedom.

Grace saved my life it can revolutionize yours.

We are not saved by good deeds we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.

God’s on your side be on God’s side!

Forgiveness is mandatory reconciliation is optional.

Gracious pride is a wonderful quality when it is used for good it brings out the best in you and encourages the best in others.

Grace is the ability to accept change. Be open and supple the brittle break.

Law merely indicated the sickness grace brought about the cure.

Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity.

Now I know the power of grace.

I am seeing life in two dimensions human and divine.

Faith is the receiver of grace unbelief is the rejector.

Have you forgotten what it feels like to be alive? The grace of life shining on you each breath vitalizing you with possibility? Remember!

Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation it’s God bringing people in.

Her every movement transfixed him she was graceful and refined. She’d become a woman. An elegant woman.

It is a terrible smudge on grace and unconditional love to think that God simply winks and smiles at our poor choices that God must rubber stamp everything we do or else He is unloving. God loves us unconditionally regardless of our performance - good or bad. When God challenges us or corrects us He does not stop loving us. In the safety of His love we can receive correction and challenge without shame or feelings of rejection.

... the pursuit of holiness must bre anchored in grace otherwise it is doomed to failure.

Truth in Christ is not a matter of being near or far like in martial arts when you strive for a black belt. He saves us then we grow not the other way around.

Your dirty past somehow puts GOD's grace on blast it amplifies the great grace of GOD over your life.

Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit but my impact after depart is my particular to paradise.

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.

The freedom to talk with God and of God is being opened by God's joy. It cannot be forced. For true awareness cannot be coercive it does not come about by either authoritarian pressure or the force of logic. It presupposes liberty. Being aware of God is an art and--if the term may be permitted--a noble game.

Religion consists much in holy affection but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises. Friendship between earthly friends consists much in affection but those strong exercises of affection that actually carry them through fire and water for each other are the highest evidences of true friendship.

The Covenant of Grace is that eternal and intimate bond of friendship that God has established with His people in the Lord Jesus Christ in which He is their sovereign friend and they are His servant friends and in which God gives to them a communion of life with Him and a sovereignly dictated order of life.

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners others like you're the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you're closest to God.

A New Year is like a new day with fullness of sacred grace to fulfill the God-given dreams.

A divine great spirit put awe-words on my mind my sacred-duty is the writing.

Graceful living fullness of life.

Amazing grace blessed life.

At the mercy of graceMy mind renewed.My soul restored.My spirit rekindled.

Let thy power be the grace to pray.

Connected to the collective heart, you can be certain in every cell of your being that you are never alone, and you will experience the grace, guidance and ease that comes when you are one with all there is.

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Of course, if one does not fully trust the promise of God's Kingdom, he will have a hard time taking risks and making sacrifices in this life. A gospel centered around the temporal self - fleeting happiness, earthly success, vain prosperity, things such as these - is the primary ambition of the half-hearted Christian; the one who somewhat believes he is subject to an eternal death; the one who just might believe in men before God, who morbidly fears seeming less than anyone else. The man of this

We are much more than pretty... we are wonderfully made. We are much more than likable... we are deeply loved. We are much more than ok... we are the daughters of the King.

...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.

Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form. Beatitude starts at the moment when the thinking-feeling has surpassed the author's need to thinking - he no longer needs to think and now finds himself close to the grandeur of the nothing. I could say of the "everything". But "everything" is a quanitity, and quantity has a limit in its very beginning. The true incommensurability is the nothing, which has no barriers adn where a person can scatt

And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying is that the thought of the man and the way this thinking-feeling can reach an extreme degree of incommunicability - that, without sophism or paradox, is at the same time, for that man, the point of greatest communication. He communicates with himself.

We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

You are really and truly and completely free. There is no kicker. There is no if, and, or but. You are free. You can do it right or wrong. You can obey or disobey. You can run from Christ or run to Christ. You can choose to become a faithful Christian or an unfaithful Christian. You can cry, cuss, and spit, or laugh, sing, and dance. You can read a novel or the Bible. You can watch television or pray. You're free...really free.

A New Year brings new grace for new accomplishments.

The glorious riches of God are inexhaustible.

I became the fractured shell of a mustard seed to dwell for an eye-blink amid a starburst galaxy of broken dreams.

The greatest self is the grace to live for your dreams.

May you be filled with fullness of grace.

Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.

Your first goal should be to receive grace and anointing and then spread it to others

Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had once been colored flowers, but the color was washed out now, so that the small flowered pattern was only a little lighter gray than the background. The dress came down to her ankles, and he strong, broad, bare feet moved quickly and deftly over the floor. Her thin, steel-gray hair was gathered in a sparse wispy knot at the back of her head. Strong, freckled arms were bar

Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the win

We are all trying very hard to be kind, considerate and compassionate. How much we succeed depends on which side of the table we are on. What we feel is our best foot forward may appear to be uncaring to others. So before forming opinions look within and grant people grace. As it is life is pretty difficult for us because we all are struggling with something or the other. No one really purposely wants to trouble or hurt anybody.

The doom of destruction is the snare of sin.

All you need is what you have.

God's grace is a gift just as life is a gracious breath.

In the grace of the Truth, re-examine all that you have been told.

If you have legs that work, walk in the right direction. If you have an audible voice, say constructive words. If you have functional eyes, see great things. If you are in a position of power, use it productively and if you have a sound mind, think exceptionally; for such is not a given, but grace.

The gift of time is the grace of today.

Grace is released more abundantly as you work.

There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books.

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.” There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down, saying, I never merited this grace, quite rightly, and then to sulk along the rest of your days on the edge o

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.

The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job.

Love without restraint makes one saint and the other faint the sweetest face and the tenderest embrace bring the sun to every place in such grace.

On my journey from the fantastical to the practical, spirituality has gone from being a mystical experience to something very ordinary and a daily experience. Many don’t want this, instead they prefer spiritual grandeur, and I believe that is what keeps enlightenment at bay. We want big revelations of complexity that validates our perceptions of the divine. What a let down it was to Moses when God spoke through a burning bush! But that is exactly the simplicity of it all. Our spiritual life is o

Grace is giving yourself a free pass and realizing that it isn't free at all.

To the extent you expand your consciousness is the extent to which you experience being divine.

Do not judge. But pray for grace for all people.

We are all blessed, but there are people who have special favor and grace with God

May God grant his grace for all people.

One that society can't forgive, but I can.

Staying locked into an image of how things are supposed to be can blind us to the grace of what is.

Don't let God be the co-author of your life.

Heavy burden is laid on our hearts, so we do not trust in ourselves. But in God gives grace for endurance.

The only reality is the grace of repentance.

Grace is good.

May all people from every nation, find power of God’s grace.

May you find grace to be great.

Every new day, I reach out to the best of myself by grace.

For every God-given goal, He gives grace to accomplish it.

Serve God and get grace to serve people

A rich man is not a man without problems but a man whose faith has conquered the problems even when it's there.

Live like Jesus, pray like Jesus, love like Jesus, serve like Jesus but don't hand yourself over to the enemy like Him.

Be wise enough to forgive but don't be foolish enough to trust again.

I am nothing but a ripped fabric stitched together by God's grace.

Having faith does not mean you should be idle and expecting manna to fall from above. You must get up and do something!