Quotes about grace
grace calling his-love
We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving. J. I. Packer
grace merit guilty
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
grace new-testament theology
This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
grace lows get-low
Get low; grace will meet you there. Jack Miller
grace action common
This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious. Jeremy Taylor
grace matter does-it-matter
What does it matter, all is grace. Georges Bernanos
grace addresses rich
And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you? George Whitefield
grace cost facts
In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace. George Saunders
grace drink easier
God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace. John Piper
grace enabling sin
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
grace genius patterns
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals. John Noble
grace gods-grace i-am-what-i-am
But by the grace of God I am what I am John Newton
grace found lost
I once was lost, but now am found,
grace world want
I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am
grace affliction bears
One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them. John Wesley
grace function offers
Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers. John Stott
grace care rescue
Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
grace doe trust-in-god
Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace - future grace - and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God's love and power.
grace wealth christianity
God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.
grace enabling pardon
Grace is power, not just pardon.
grace gold want
If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
grace merit mediators
The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator. Martin Luther
grace christianity should
We should die relying on grace alone
grace may abiding
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.
grace scripture helping
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.
grace accepting offers
If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.
grace christ righteousness
Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.
grace bones weary
We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.
grace riches mystery
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.
grace thrones world
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. Shane Claiborne
grace world body
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. Michael Pollan
grace connections scarce
Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value. Seth Godin
grace misunderstood
Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy. Ravi Zacharias