Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

Martin Luther

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.

Martin Luther

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

Martin Luther

Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.

Martin Luther

We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.

Martin Luther

This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.

Matthew Fox

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

Marya Mannes

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

Martha Beck

Does this feel warmer or colder?

Mark Helprin

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

Oswald Chambers

Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.

Oswald Chambers

Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

Oswald Chambers

The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.

Oswald Chambers

Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.

Oswald Chambers

Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.

Oswald Chambers

Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.

Julia Quinn

Very well,” he said with a small sigh. “Ladies today are so very capable. It breaks my hea rt, really.” He leaned in, almost as if sharing a secret. “No one likes to feel superfluous.” Grace just stared at him. “Rendered mute by my grace and charm,” he said, stepping back to allow them to exit. “It happens all the time. Really, I shouldn‟t be allowed near the ladies. I have such a vexing effect on you.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

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

Mike Myers

Enlightenment is lightening up.

Marian Anderson

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

R. C. Sproul

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

R. C. Sproul

God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.

R. C. Sproul

We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.

R. C. Sproul

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

R. C. Sproul

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

R. C. Sproul

Grace and mercy are never deserved.

Oprah Winfrey

What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Marc Benioff

Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts; it's about participation. It is about the grace that comes from working together.

Oscar Wilde

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

Kathryn Hulme

Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

Shane Claiborne

One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.

Michael Pollan

For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.