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All can be done if the god-touch is there
— Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
It's when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.
— Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love:  Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to them as we can. If we really did attempt to return to them, we would find Moses as well as Christ, Calvin, and his legions of intellectual heirs. And we would find a recurrent, passionate, insistence on bounty or liberality, mercy and liberality, on being kind and liberal, liberal and bountiful, and enjoying the great blessings God has promised to liberality to the poor.
— Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Your imperfections make you the perfect tool for God to work with. John 3:16
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible: Volume Two
We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.
— Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love:  Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. It is the message of grace.~Quote by Brennan Manning
— Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love:  Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
One-way love is rare, though, and it always comes as a surprise. Fortunately, the glimpses we receive in relationships are only a foreshadowing of God's love for us. They are like little arrows that point to the very heart of the universe, what Dante called 'the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars,' the love that received its fullest expression in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
— Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love:  Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people. Far from being a book full of moral heroes whom we are commanded to emulate, what we discover is that the so-called heroes in the Bible are not really heroes at all. They fall and fail; they make huge mistakes; they get afraid; they're selfish, deceptive, egotistical, and unreliable. The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness.
— Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love:  Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.
— Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love:  Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)
— Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love:  Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
What then do we learn from Paul's unbroken pattern of beginning and ending his letters this way ("Grace be to you." "Grace be with you.")? We learn that grace is an unmistakable priority in the Christian life. We learn that it is from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, but that it can come through people. We learn that grace is ready to flow to us every time we take up the inspired Scriptures to read them. And we learn that grace will abide with us when we lay the Bible down and go about our daily living. In other words, we learn that grace is not merely a past reality but a future one. Every time I reach for the Bible, God's grace is a reality that will flow to me. Every time I put the Bible down and go about my business, God's grace will go with me. This is what I mean by future grace.
— John Piper, Future Grace
We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.
— Vincent Louis Carrella
What you will encounter is 'grace unmeasured, vast and free' --the kind that will frighten and free you at the same time. That's what grace does, after all.
— Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love:  Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
Grace is the seed of all goodness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites and escapes.
— Joseph Conrad
A good short definition of grace is "one-way love.
— Justin S. Holcomb & Lindsey A. Holcomb
The living and dead world are separated by breath.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May God continue to give you much more grace for every great deed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
On a superficial level, self-esteem techniques and a tough "refusal to allow others to hurt me" tactic may work for the short term. But what happens for the abused person on a bad day, a bad month, or a bad year? Sin and the effects of sin are similar to the laws of inertia: a person (or object) in motion will continue on that trajectory until acted upon by an outside force. If one is devastated by sin, a personal failure to rise above the effects of sin will simply create a snowball effect of shame. Hurting people need something from the outside to stop the downward spiral. Fortunately, grace floods in from the outside at the point when hope to change oneself is lost. Grace declares and promises that you will be healed. One-way love does not command "Heal thyself!" but declares "You will be healed!
— Justin S. Holcomb & Lindsey A. Holcomb
Maybe something can only be born when something else dies. Maybe our 'coming alive' feels like being dragged through the dirt. Maybe you and I are hanging my a thread of grace for most of our lives and we're expected to be humble, not haughty, with the breaks we've been given. Maybe we're supposed to pay good deeds forward. Maybe we're supposed to think what's in it for me? far less than we do. Maybe we need to sacrifice more. Maybe it won't feel like a sacrifice at all, but more like the sensation of becoming unnumbed.
— Jeff Goins, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life
There is grace for every good action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes, the most graceful way to handle something is to be decidedly ungraceful.
— Kristi Ling, Operation Happiness: The 3-Step Plan to Creating a Life of Lasting Joy, Abundant Energy, and Radical Bliss
Thank God for daily grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capable of giving and and as well receiving, from giving graciously The blessing about giving is that it always comes back to us!
— Angie karan
Thank God for today’s grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Grace is amazing #blessed
— Grace McCarthy, Coaching and Mentoring for Business
With grace and gratitude, great life evolves.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We ought to seek daily grace. The sacred-spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With grace and gratitude, great lives evolve.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery
—  thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity.
The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.
— Lucia Berlin
Boundaries come after grace, because compassion minds the fragile places but boundaries keep them from compromising the rest. Brokenness may have legitimate origins, but left unchecked, a wound becomes infected and poisons the whole body (and subsequently, everyone around). Wounds must be attended to heal. With an unhealthy limb, the rest of the body overcompensates through manipulation, aggression, or blaming. Boundaries here are kind. Better to apply direct pressure to the wound than pretend it is well; this may get worse before better, but it is way of healing.
— Jen Hatmaker, For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
If you fall down to the ground, you're in the perfect position to pray. It definitely humbles you and if you're humble it's easier for God to get Closer to You.
— Jeanette Coron
grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101.
— Anne Lamott, Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son
The sacred souls are saved by grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Now I know
—  the power of grace.
The grace of God transforms the sinner into saint.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But the final rehearsed words, “Treat me as one of your hired servants” are smothered by his father’s embrace! He will not have his son home only on condition that he “does penance” in order to work his way back into his father’s grace. He does not need to “repent enough” to be accepted.Sinclair B. Ferguson. The Whole Christ (Kindle Locations 1913-1916). Crossway.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
God's grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior
— Timothy J. Keller
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
Life challenges are real. You can overcome each challenge by grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
New York had pushed and bent and bullied, driving me underground to sort out the madness and sculpt my Being with my own hands in self-discovery on its cold pottery wheel and in the white heat of its kiln. The City enabled me to learn who I really was, as a pixelated man and member of Humanity.
— David B. Lentz, The Fine Art of Grace: A Novel
I experience the grace of greater power.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
How do you surrender when every cell of your being is screaming that your life is not working and that you need to do something to make it work? How do you surrender in that moment when jealousies, envy, doubt, rage, resentment all rise up inside you? You accept that you are resisting letting go; you accept that perhaps you are not yet ready to take your hands off the steering wheel; you accept this with kindness to who you are in the moment, being gentle and tender instead of beating yourself over the head with the 'Must hurry up, time is of the essence, everyone is passing me by' train of thought.
— Kelly    Martin, When Everyone Shines But You - Saying Goodbye To I'm Not Good Enough
How can you seek God if he's already here? It's like standing n the ocean and crying out, 'I want to get wet.' You want to get over the line to God. It turns out he was always there." Francisco's eyes began to gleam. "Grace comes to those who stop struggling. When it really sinks in that there's nothing you can do to find God, he suddenly appears. That's the deepest mystery, the only one that counts
— Deepak Chopra
How can you seek God if he's already here? It's like standing in the ocean and crying out, 'I want to get wet.' You want to get over the line to God. It turns out he was always there." Francisco's eyes began to gleam. "Grace comes to those who stop struggling. When it really sinks in that there's nothing you can do to find God, he suddenly appears. That's the deepest mystery, the only one that counts.
— Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism
It takes grace to be a great soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The main thing to tell a person when you explain how to become righteous is to announce to him for free grace of God, concealing nothing, saying none other than what God says in the Gospel. Build a fence around Mount Sinai, but not around Golgotha ,because at Golgotha all God's wrath was appeased.
— C.F.W. Walther, Law & Gospel: How to Read and Apply the Bible: A Reader's Edition
The gift of today enfold in grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
There is grace for survival in any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
What victims need are not self-produced positive statements but God's statements about his response to their pain. How can you be rid of these dysfunctional emotions and their effects? How can you be rid of your disgrace? God's grace to you dismantles the beliefs that give disgrace life. Grace re-creates what violence destroyed. Martin Luther writes that "the love of God does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it." One-way love is the change agent you need. Grace transforms and heals; and healing comes by hearing God's statements to you, not speaking your own statements to yourself.
— Justin S. Holcomb
May you find the grace of triumph in any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We need God-great grace in all spheres of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The sacred-time will hold my babies in my hand.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You will face many troubles. But the Lord will deliver you each time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When God's goodness touches our lives, it's called "grace.
— James Randall Robison, God Wants You to Be Happy
God’s grace is our greatest need.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When a course of action is forced upon you it’s best to accept it with grace and milk it for whatever you can get, right up to the moment the first opportunity to weasel out of the deal presents itself.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Fools
Endure graciously the difficult times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We are saved by grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
G - God’sR - RedemptionA - AtC - Christ’sE - Expense
— Paul Silway
I have experience near-death many times but a divine power saved me.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May the Lord grant you grace to endure the times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Grace, if you have used an iron within the last six months, I will eat that fork," Ms. Chancellor says."Which one?" I try to tease. "You've got a lot of forks to choose from.""From which to choose, Grace. Do not end your sentences in prepositions, dear.""Of course, I totally see what you're getting at. I mean, at what you're getting.
— Ally Carter, All Fall Down
There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
The power of gratitude is the grace of fullness existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Experiencing something of the grace of God should always cause our self-perceived ideas about 'Who He is' and 'How He works' to pop.
— Tristan Sherwin, Love: Expressed
The power of encouragement is the grace of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
And the thing about grace, real grace, is that it stings. It stings because if it's real it means we don't "deserve" it. ... And receiving grace is basically the best shitty feeling in the world.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
Grace of service is the heart of belonging.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My inward experience has often been a wilderness; but Thou hast owned me still as Thy beloved, and poured streams of love and grace into me to gladden me, and make me fruitful.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
I am seeing life in two dimensions
—  human and divine.
God gave us the grace and ability to work, because it is only through work we can resolve national issues.
— Sunday Adelaja
When someone is filled with the Holy Spirit’s power and is zealous to do good, their “fire” for God will always expose their enemies. It was the fire that made the snake come out and bite Paul.“Paul gathered a pile of sticks for the fire. He was putting the sticks on the fire, and a poisonous snake came out because of the heat and bit him on the hand.”Acts 28:3
— Sandra M. Michelle, Shake It Off: Neutralizing the Venom of Poisonous People
May the weary soul find rest in the Lord.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can do the required-work by grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
He's waiting for you to end your struggles so that His grace can walk you out of the drowning water.
— Steven Chopade
Christ is all in the entire work of salvation. Let me just take you back to the period before this world was made. There was a time when this great world, the sun, the moon, the stars, and all which now exist throughout the whole of the vast universe, lay in the mind of God, like unborn forests in an acorn cup. There was a time when the Great Creator lived alone, and yet he could foresee that he would make a world, and that men would be born to people it; and in that vast eternity a great scheme was devised, whereby he might save a fallen race. Do you know who devised it? God planned it from first to last. Neither Gabriel nor any of the holy angels had anything to do with it. I question whether they were even told how God might be just, and yet save the transgressors. God was all in the drawing up of the scheme, and Christ was all in carrying it out. There was a dark and doleful night! Jesus was in the garden, sweating great drops of blood, which fell to the ground; nobody then came to bear the load that had been laid upon him. An angel stood there to strengthen him, but not to bear the sentence. The cup was put into his hands, and Jesus said, "Father, must I drink it?" and his Father replied, "If thou dost not drink, sinners cannot be saved"; and he took the cup and drained it to its very dregs. No man helped him. And when he hung upon that accursed tree of Calvary, when his precious hands were pierced, when: "From his head, his hands, his feet, Sorrow and love flowed mingled down," there was nobody to help him. He was "all" in the work of salvation. And, my friends, if any of you shall be saved, it must be by Christ alone. There must be no patchwork; Christ did it all, and will not be helped in the matter. Christ will not allow you, as some say, to do what you can, and leave him to make up the rest. What can you do that is not sinful? Christ has done all for us; the work of redemption is all finished. Christ planned it all, and worked out all; and we, therefore, preach a full salvation through Jesus Christ.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done just the opposite. We’ve all done a lot of sinful things that we’re not very proud of. The good news is that, before we even ask to be forgiven– before we even know we’ve done wrong, sometimes– God has this miraculous, saving love for us.
— Erin O'Riordan, Cut
If I had to sum up the gospel I should have to tell you certain facts: Jesus, the Son of God, became man; he was born of the virgin Mary; lived a perfect life; was falsely accused of men; was crucified, dead, and buried; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God; from whence he shall also come to judge the quick and the dead. This is one of the elementary truths of our gospel; we believe in the resurrection of the dead, the final judgment, and the life everlasting.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Asking for outside help, or even if it comes unasked, to allow outside help, needs a certain gracefulness and humility. Otherwise, you cannot allow outside help. Lots of people cannot receive something gracefully. Always, the social ethics have taught you that giving is important, taking is not important. Yes, taking is not important, taking is ugly, but receiving is very important.
— Sadhguru
My friends, I do not believe it is preaching Christ and him crucified, to give people a batch of philosophy every Sunday morning and evening, and neglect the truths of this Holy Book. I do not believe it is preaching Christ and him crucified, to leave out the main cardinal doctrines of the Word of God, and preach a religion which is all a mist and a haze, without any definite truths whatever. I take it that man does not preach Christ and him crucified, who can get through a sermon without mentioning Christ's name once; nor does that man preach Christ and him crucified, who leaves out the Holy Spirit's work, who never says a word about the Holy Ghost, so that indeed the hearers might say, "We do not so much as know whether there be a Holy Ghost." And I have my own private opinion, that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and him crucified, unless you preach what now-a-days is called Calvinism. I have my own ideas, and those I always state boldly. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism. Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith without works; not unless we preach the sovereignty of God in his dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor, I think, can we preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the peculiar redemption which Christ made for his elect and chosen people; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of damnation, after having believed. Such a gospel I abhor. The gospel of the Bible is not such a gospel as that. We preach Christ and him crucified in a different fashion, and to all gainsayers we reply, "We have not so learned Christ.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The example of Jesus Christ is the only perfect example that ever existed in human nature. It is therefore, a rule by which to try all other examples; and the dispositions, frames and practices of others, must be commended and followed no further than they were followers of Christ.
— Jonathan Edwards
May God’s grace abound to you for every good work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I see people teaching how to make an impact, but i don't want to make dents, i want to walk lightly on the earth, grateful for universal grace.
— Jay Woodman
I live by grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Nothing but a miracle of grace can lead to the saving of any sinner. Oh, my reader, be not deceived on this vital matter; to mortify the lusts of the flesh, to be crucified unto the world, to overcome the Devil, to die daily unto sin and live unto righteousness, to be meek and lowly in heart, trustful and obedient, pious and patient, faithful and uncompromising, loving and gentle; in a word, to be a Christian, to be Christ-like, is a task far, far beyond the poor resources of fallen human nature.
— Arthur W. Pink
You can’t re-create the first time you promise to love someone or the first time you feel loved by another. You cannot relive the sensation of fear, admiration, self-­consciousness, passion, and desire all mixed into one because it never happens twice. You chase it like the first high for the rest of your life. It doesn’t mean you can’t love another or move on; it just means that the one spontaneous moment, the split second that you took the leap, when your heart was racing and your mind was muddled with What ifs?—that moment—will never happen the same way again. It will never feel as intense as the first time. At least, that’s the way I remember it. That’s why my mother always said we memorialize our past. Everything seems better in a memory.
— Renee Carlino, Before We Were Strangers
True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
Brokenness to redemption, where mercy and grace kiss both sides of our face.Brokenness where we are split open.Redemption where God knits us back together.Mercy when we don't get the punishment we do deserve. Grace when we get the lavish love gifts we don't deserve. So here we are.
— Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions
We were miles away from our real lives.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
Grace rides inside the waves.
— Marty Rubin
What is it about the Heavens that draws us to look up? For generations, centuries, (millennia?) it seems we are drawn to look up for answers, comfort in times of despair, with pleas for help, when we are in need of grace, and to give thanks.
— Bella Vespira
But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.
— Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can't Control
This is what people are talking about when they use words like grace.That moment, that morning, came vividly back to him whenever he thought of it. But soon suspicion set in. He understood well enough that life by very definition is upset, movement, agitation.
— James Sallis, Drive
We “talk” relationship but we “live” religion, with unsatisfying results. Christianity defines itself, first and foremost, as a relationship with God. Even though this is true, our human nature tends toward living a relationship with God as if it were a religion
— Mark Cowper-Smith
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty
— John F. Kennedy
I do understand that they fall when I'm least able to pay attention because poems fall not from a tree, really, but from the richly pollinated boughs of an ordinary life, buzzing, as lives do, with clamor and glory. They are easy to miss but everywhere: poetry just is, whether we revere it or try to put it in prison. It is elementary grace, communicated from one soul to another.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
The fragility of human emotions are not to be trusted but to validate the necessity of Grace.
— John Pauul Warren
if a man runs with man is called as "Race" but if a man runs towards God is called as "Grace".
— grace of God
The Church is not called to overthrow government but to influence culture.
— John Paul Warren
To stand against the enemy is to rest in what Jesus has already done.
— Pedro Okoro, The Ultimate Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Learn to Fight from Victory, Not for Victory!
It is not the balance in your check book that makes life count. It is the investment one makes in the lives of others.
— John Paul Warren
The amazing, whole, overwhelming, abundant life is found, oddly, by letting go. By living a dangerous faith--the kind of faith that believes in a God who knows our hearts and loves us enough to take our breath away.
— Susan May Warren, When I Fall in Love
Even if your world seems to be falling apart, you can be confident in that you are in His hand of grace.
— Sunday Adelaja
God always gives grace to the person who knows how to humble himself before Him and who sets his hopes on Him. God only gives grace to humble people.
— Pastor Adelaja Sunday
Grace shows that the Christian race is God’s race.
— Pedro Okoro, The Ultimate Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Learn to Fight from Victory, Not for Victory!
We are usually angered when someone insults us, until Divine Grace comes upon us. When we receive Grace, we no longer feel hurt when others insult us but remain quiet and peaceful, as though the insult was not directed at us at all.
— Thaddeus of Vitovnica
For certain he hath seen all perfectnessFor certain he hath seen all perfectness. Who among other ladies hath seen mine: They that go with her humbly should combine To thank their God for such peculiar grace. So perfect is the beauty of her face That it begets in no wise any sign Of envy, but draws round her a clear line Of love, and blessed faith, and gentleness. Merely the sight of her inakes all things bow: Not she herself alone is holier Than all: but hers, through her, are raised above. From all her acts such lovely graces flow That truly one may never think of her Without a passion of exceeding love.
— Dante Alighieri
I wouldn’t call Gabriel Walsh if I was on fire.” She pursed her lips. “No, I might. To sue everyone responsible—from the person who lit the match to those who made my clothes. But I’d wait until the fire was out. Otherwise, he’d just stand there until I was burned enough for a sizable settlement.
— Kelley Armstrong, Omens
Life should be lived more from the heart and less from the head.
— John Paul Warren
The death of Christ is their meritorious cause; the Spirit of God and his effectual grace their efficient, working instrumentally with power by the word and ordinances.
— John Owen, The Death of Christ
The term ‘Grace’ has been explained by people just to fulfill the vested interest. But what is its actual meaning? Thakur (Sri Ramkrishna) has said ‘When God within the body wishes to liberate himself, then there will be actual liberation of ‘Atma’ or ‘Soul’. That means spontaneous evolution of life power. This spontaneous evolution which individual gets is called grace. Otherwise the term ‘Grace’ is an abstract idea.
— Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
The righteousness of God in His election means, then, that as a righteous Judge God perceives and estimates as such the lost cause of the creature, and that in spite of its opposition He gives sentence in its favour, fashioning for it His own righteousness.
— Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics: II.2 The Doctrine of the Word of God §§ 34–35
When we really understand it, we will always find grace offensive. And that's exactly the way it should be. If we start to feel comfortable with grace, then we've lost what it really means.
— Jay Bakker, Faith, Doubt, and Other Lines I've Crossed: Walking with the Unknown God
In order for grace to truly be grace, it has to extend to absolutely everyone, no matter what, no questions, no exceptions. Otherwise we think that somehow, by living a moral life...we've deserved it
— Jay Bakker
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.
— Max Lucado
Jesus Is The Resurrection, therefore, Resurrection Is Not A Thing Or An Event, RESURRECTION Is A PERSONALITY".
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Answers? Ha, he would say that. More like riddles, mazes, labyrinths. If there's some power trying to show me the way, it should give better directions.
— Megan Chance, The Web
We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!
— Bill Watterson, There's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure
Sam reached his hand toward mine, and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile, he pulled my hand toward his nose and took a sniff, and then another one. His smile widened, though it was still shy. It was absolutely adorable, and my breath got caught somewhere in my throat.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.
— C.S. Lewis
You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father.
— Max Lucado
Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Hours
If anyone had a right to lecture people about their sin, it was the sinless son of God. If even he could meet sinners as equals, how much more should we Christians---all sinners ourselves---treat as equals the people we encounter in our lives?
— Justin Lee, Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate
It seemed possible to me, in the dry heat of that courtroom, that heaven was a metaphor for the grace of perspective you get when you die
— Thomas Page McBee
You have enough grace for each day task.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Daily prayer, daily grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Prayer is a great opportunity to receive grace from God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The great heroes of other ancient cultures were strong and clever and virtuous, but the great Jewish heroes copulated with slaves (Abraham), showed they were willing to allow others to have sex with their wives (also Abraham), cheated their brothers, seduced their in-laws, murdered, started civil wars through terrible family decisions, yet somehow-through a mixture of humility, near-insanity, and good fortune-served as conduits of God's action in the world.
— William McDavid, Law & Gospel: A Theology for Sinners
Be grateful for the twists in the road. They teach us humility and grace. And any dancer in this life requires both
— Margaret Moss Painter
Though the gospel amnesty which grace proclaims makes no exceptions, for Divine grace has no limits, there are limits to the time within which the amnesty avails. And if sinners despise grace there is nothing for them but judgment, stern and inexorable.
— Robert Anderson
God is a lot of things to a lot of people but I don't think He is a cheap party host with limited grace to give out.
— Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I'm so sorry I'm not her.
— Ally Carter, All Fall Down
I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.
— Ally Carter, All Fall Down
I've attended seven schools in ten years," I explain. "So you can rest assured I know you. You're the girl who thinks being cruel is the same thing as being witty. You think being loud is the same thing as being right. And, most of all, you're the girl who is very, very pretty. And also very, very...common. trust me. There's at least one of you in every school." I watch her features shift. "Oh. Wait. Did you think you were unique?
— Ally Carter, All Fall Down
For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that I'm going to make us all fall down.
— Ally Carter, All Fall Down
Congratulations," I tell her with a slight bow. "I hope you and your power trip will be very happy together. Now, if you'll excuse me, it's time for me to go.
— Ally Carter, All Fall Down
Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.
— Joanna Macy
Maybe she will be broken forever. but if it is so, she will adorn it with radiant elegance; and all that man will ever discern is her effortless grace and the softness of her smile.
— Terry A. O'Neal
The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of whichher beauty was a part.
— Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
God is a lot of things to a lot of people but I don’t think he is a cheap party host with limited grace to give out.
— Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men of God, others use the new laws of anti-religious anger to tear down men of God.
— Criss Jami, Healology
I had to take the first step for myself.
— Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
Grace enters the soul where love lies serene.
— Jay Woodman
Whatever mistakes her son might make in life, Cindy was sure God would have mercy on him. The church, she feared, might not.
— Justin Lee
It may take years of struggle and confession, battle and failure. The places in my life where I struggle with deadly sins are matters of a decade or more of focus, repentance, shame, and grace. I’ve traveled some long roads simply to lessen the depth of some of my failures and addictions — just to get to a place where I can receive fresh grace and encouragement.
— Jeff Cook, Seven: The Deadly Sins and the Beatitudes
Take a step in the right direction and you will find your smile again. It will be there beaming by the light of God’s amazing grace.
— Calvin W. Allison, Standing at the Top of the Hill
People helping people, builds stronger communities
— Andrew-Knox B Kaniki
Grace doesn’t give me a free pass to act out how I feel, with no regard to His commands. Rather, His grace gives me consolation in the moment, with a challenge to learn from this situation and become more mature in the future.
— Lysa TerKeurst, Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl
Grace is an empowerment to be above and beyond reproach, to live your life at a standard that pleases God.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
All you need is 5min or even less.....Go outside, look up the clear sky and thank the HEAVENS above you for the life you have and the blessings you receive on a daily basis. Why do we make it a mission to simply say thank you? NB: I double dare you to do it!
— Katlego Semusa
The only way to be productive is to realize we don't HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.
— Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
Sweetheart, I remember every second from the first moment I laid eyes on you and I’ve been trying to get my world upright ever since.
— Tammy L. Gray, Mercy's Fight
There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.
— George H.W. Bush
There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.
— Marilynne Robinson, Lila
Rest in the knowledge that God is both abundantly gracious and ridiculously generous.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Your purpose is great than your problems.
— John Paul Warren
You can’t fix who you are on your own, but God is in the business of transforming broken girls into beautiful trophies of His grace.
— Paula Hendricks
Petals don't ask Where to landThey just fall With grace.
— Sheniz Janmohamed, Firesmoke
Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be
— Anne Leonard
Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as dazzling innocence, going on her way, and holding in her hand, all unconsciousness, the key of a paradise.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Justice is the virtue we 'd rather have done unto others than practiced on ourselves.
— Jonathan V. Last
Wherever the plan of God takes you, the grace of God will sustain you.
— John Paul Warren
Refuse to be content with the knowledge of God. Insist on experiencing His presence.
— John Paul Warren
So many today want merely to be familiar with Jesus in contrast to being intimate with Him.
— John Paul Warren
A well lived life is purpose filled
— Blake L. Higginbotham
Life is too short to waste on unproductive endeavors
— Blake L. Higginbotham
I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye
— Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
So do you want to make culture? Find a community, a small group who can lovingly fuel your dreams and puncture your illusions. Find friends and form a family who are willing to see grace at work in one another's lives, who can discern together which gifts and which crosses each has been called to bear. Find people who have a holy respect for power and a holy willingness to spend their power alongside the powerless. Find some partners in the wild and wonderful world beyond church doors. And then, together, make something of the world.
— Andy Crouch, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Hours
It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
What grace I have is enough.
— Theodore Roethke
The more deeply one enters into the experience of the sacred the more one is aware of one’s own personal evil and the destructive forces in society. The fact that one is alive to what is possible for humankind sharpens one’s sense that we are fallen people. The awareness of sin is the inevitable consequence of having met grace... This grace-judgment dynamic reveals that the center of Christian life is repentance. This does not mean that the distinguishing mark of the Christian is breast-beating. Feeling sorry, acknowledging guilt, and prolonging regret may be components of the human condition, but they are not what Jesus means by repentance. Repentance is the response to grace that overcomes the past and opens out to a new future. Repentance distinguishes Christian life as one of struggle and conversion and pervades it, not with remorse, but with hope. The message of Jesus is not “Repent,” but “Repent for the Kingdom of God is near.
— John Shea, A Star at Its Rising: Advent Meditations
Despite the differences in detail and in emphasis in Wesley's exposition of the two sacraments, there is an underlying unity in his sacramental theology. He regarded both sacraments as means whereby God could confer grace according to His promise, but yet insisted, that in order to prevent the means from being mistaken as ends, it was necessary for there to be an appropriation of the grace held out by the faith of the believer. Grace was not conferred IN SPITE OF MAN, but only with his co-operation. So human response was necessary for the efficacy of the sacraments, although man's actions were never thought of as meritorious works.
— John R. Parris, John Wesley's Doctrine of the Sacraments
Repentance in Greek means something much closer to "thinking differently afterward" than it does "changing your cheating ways." Of course repentance can look like a prostitute becoming a librarian, but it can also look like a prostitute simply saying, "OK, I'm a sex worker and I don't know how to change that, but I can come here and receive bread and wine and I can hold onto the love of God without being deemed worthy of it by anyone but God.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
You can let go of all that stuff you thought was real when you know it's just a game. What a relief, what a state of grace that brings.
— Jay Woodman
Love is a heart smile.
— John Paul Warren
432In the end, grace may prove irresistible, but love can never be forced. Augustine knew this.
— James Wetzel
God love's in the dark.
— John Paul Warren
The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that he decided not to give us what we deserve--that's mercy. In addition, God decided to give us what we don't deserve--we call that grace.
— Andy Stanley
God's love and His gift of salvation are given to you by God’s grace—not earned by your works.
— Jim George
Grace is the divine assistance that gives you advantage over those who are better than you.
— Richard Okorie
Waiting accentuates our helplessness, ant that is what God seems committed to revealing. Only when we know ourselves to be helpless do we fully experience his grace and glory. We have to wait for it.
— Marcia Lebhar
Maybe it's not about being worthy, or what you have to offer. If it was, wouldn't everyone be turned away?" -Niall
— Brittany L. Engels, Kaptito Kero
I've also represented people who have committed terrible crimes but nonetheless struggle to recover and to find redemption. I have discovered, deep in the hearts of many condemned and incarcerated people, the scattered traces of hope and humanity - seeds of restoration that come to astonishing life when nurtured by very simple interventions.Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. My work with the poor and incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice. Finally, I've come to believe that the true measure of our commitment to justice, the character of our society, our commitment to the rule of law, fairness, and equality cannot be measured by how we treat the rich, the powerful, the privileged, and the respected among us. The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's never to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and - perhaps - we all need some measure of unmerited grace.
— Bryan Stevenson
We must be willing to get rid ofthe life we’ve planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for us.The old skin has to be shedbefore the new one can come.If we fix on the old, we get stuck.When we hang onto any form,we are in danger of putrefaction.Hell is life drying up.
— Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us. It strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy and courage. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: “You are accepted.
— Paul Tillich
The sun, rising and setting in splendid colors, never grows tired of its admirers―much like a lady, aglow with grace, never grows tired of chivalrous acts or pretty flowers.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.
— Adrian Rogers
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy