Quotes about grace
grace innocent divine
But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine. William Wordsworth
grace good-work very-good
Grace alone brings about every good work in us. Saint Augustine
grace liberty virtue
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
grace forgiving faults
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault. Richard Paul Evans
grace sin holy
As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin. Richard Baxter
grace arbitrary divine
The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it. Rebecca West
grace knows
Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are. Rob Bell
grace sin righteousness
Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness. Tullian Tchividjian
grace lists way
Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.
grace saving difficult
Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
grace needs fruit
Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
grace may incredibles
Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!
grace needs stories
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 gods-grace messy
God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
grace needs problem
Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.
grace may easier
The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.
grace flow brokenness
Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
grace different life-is
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 our-relationship relationship-with-god
My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
grace want honest
Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
grace longing judgment
Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
grace way sin
Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
grace forgiving sin
Grace cannot forgive unconfessed sin. Rod Parsley
grace cry checks
We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'
grace infinite hell
Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. Samuel Rutherford
grace conversation
Unconstraint is the grace of conversation. Samuel Johnson
grace burning distraction
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice. Voltaire
grace salvation justification
Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works. William Carey
grace thrones kneeling
Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much. Walter Savage Landor
grace ask-me asks
What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.
grace reptiles notes
I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles. Zora Neale Hurston
grace phrases agitation
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace. Wendell Phillips
grace world still-waters
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Wendell Berry