Grace Quotes - Page 9

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
In essence, Satan doesn't want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you.
Ralph Harris
I am Grace.
Petra Hermans
Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.
Philip Yancey
Grace is shockingly personal. As Henri Nouwen points out, 'God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.
Philip Yancey
God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.
Philip Yancey
Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more... And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less... Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.
Philip Yancey
Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.
Philip Yancey
A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.
Philip Yancey
Hope is the grace of a happy heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
John Tauler
QUIETUDELet this silence becomea celebration, my rainbow shining that couragecelestial diamonds scatter in darknessmy starlight reaching, engulfing bringing sacred laughterto the innermost. Grace.The whole pointof my refrain.
Tara Estacaan
I am a Christian because of God's grace. I find it in no other faith system. The Christian gospel is rather simple. I love the way Tim Keller puts it: "I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me." The result is that I neither swagger nor snivel; I live with thanksgiving, overwhelmed and overjoyed by grace. This path seems to lead us to a place of needing to be noticed less often, and being less concerned with how we're thought of.
Phil Callaway
Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your own.
Anne Lamott
Life connects us all to magic, as illustrated through the design of the Grace. So, for a Confessor, I don't need a gifted person, just a living one.
Terry Goodkind
The Grace represented the world of life, the world of the dead, and the way magic and Creation linked them. The outer circle of the design represented the beginning of the infinite world of the dead. Inside the outer circle was a square, its points just touching the outer circle. Inside the square was another circle, just touching the insides of the square. The area between those two circles with the square represented the world of life. The inside circle was life's beginnings, the outer circle its end, where souls crossed through the veil into the eternity of the underworld. An eight-pointed star inside the smaller circle was the Light of Creation. Lines from the star's points radiated out across the inner circle. the square. and across the outer circle that also symbolized the veil to the wold of the dead. The lines radiating outward from the Light represented the spark of the gift that journeyed with everyone from birth, through life, and on into death.
Terry Goodkind
The Grace represents the interconnection of everything, the world of life and the world of the dead, Additive and Subtractive, as well as the spark of the gift that runs though it all. The Grace does more though, than simply represent Additive and Subtractive magic, Creation and obliteration, life and death, it connects them into a cohesive whole. The power of Orden deals with life, death and the whole nature of existence so the key also needs to have both sides. It needs both Additive and Subtractive, life and death to be complete.
Terry Goodkind
A man makes himself hard and inflexible in order to escape his guiltiness. The strange paradox present on every page of the Gospels and which we can verify any day, is that it is not guilt which is the obstacle to grace, as moralism supposes. On the contrary, it is the repression of guilt, self-justification, genuine self-righteousness and smugness which is the obstacle.
Paul Tournier
God will give you more than you can handle because it is in your surrender that He gives you your victory!
Todd Stocker
O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).
Richard Baxter
So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).
Richard Baxter
Mature Christians daily recognize how short they fall in keeping God's law and realizes how desperately they needs God's grace.
Ibrahim Emile
Whatever your problems may be, they pale in insignificance in the light of eternity. No matter how great your failures, God's grace is greater still. Lift up your heart and face life head-on.
Prince Akwarandu
Life on Earth indeed can seem but one hard-earned lesson after another, with moments of grace and beauty in between to keep people sane, and hopeful. While some die peacefully at the natural end of a long, well-lived life, even they still haven't completed everything they meant to, or lived without regret. And some of us thought we'd have more time to things right. I tell myself that at least we planted some seeds- ideas of love, and faith, and loyalty- that are starting to show signs of growth. Time will tell.
Lorna Jane Cook
Everyone deserves something so much better than what they deserve.
Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)
Neena Verma
Lament invoked love.Woe invoked wonder.Grief invoked grace.Cry invoked celebration.(Page 80)
Neena Verma
The Bible never speaks of God's grace as simply making up our deficiencies--as if salvation consists in so much good works (even a variable amount) plus so much of God's grace. Rather the Bible speaks of "a God who justifies the wicked" (Romans 4:5) who is found by those who do not seek Him, who reveals Himself to those who do not ask for Him (see Romans 10:20).
Jerry Bridges
I’m not God, and I can’t always offer chances. I’m not sure if this won’t be your last.
Kellyn Roth
Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.
Matthew Henry
Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?
Sarah Ruhl
I love my own graceful gracious gracesensitive by sensitivity as can be.Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion of Blue CircleOctober 21, 2016
Petra Hermans
Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.
Philip Yancey
A lady laced with grace . . . Such, is impossible to despise.
Ufuoma Apoki
It seems to happen sudden—a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save himself—no energy wasted... he slips and slides— he travels with the punch. . . . Oh, sure, I like the way you're shaping up.
Clifford Odets
With grace and gratitude, life is filled with endless gladness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
... you can love completely without complete understanding.""That I have known and preached." my father said.
Norman Maclean
Grace upon grace upon grace, until we have made our way home.
T.B. LaBerge
God's government is perfect and just. His moral law is "holy, righteous and good" (Romans 7:12). No one ever has a valid reason to rebel against the government of God. We rebel for only one reason: We were born rebellious. We were born with a perverse inclination to go our own way, to set up our own internal government rather than submit to God.
Jerry Bridges
The grace of life is the seed of endless gladness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Lulu owns the kitchen,while Gracie owns the world.Petra Hermans
Petra Hermans
Without gospel, how could know the great grace of salvation?
Lailah Gifty Akita
With such a great affliction, I found the grace of liberty.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be taken away.
Amanda Ward Eyre
Without God’s help and His grace, it is impossible for a country to be transformed
Sunday Adelaja
Grace is a great mercy of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to walk on water, because we have been taught that such things have to be earned; we should deserve them; we must be qualified. We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. But a child rejoices in presents!
Madeleine L'Engle
When a 'setback' brings a 'comeback,' that's grace in action!
Evinda Lepins
He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which, instant by instant, gives life to the soul. It is a concern with a realization that breeds charity and with the charity that breeds action. Often the nature of grace can be made plain only by describing its absence.
Flannery O'Connor
Life-giving ministry flows from lives that are full of gratitude to God, not with an expectation of gratitude from others. In community we can support one another, affirm contributions and yet also trust that our work is sustained by grace.
Christopher L. Heuertz
The reverence of God is grace to act right.
Lailah Gfty Akita
There is nothing more gracious than genuinely embracing other people's good fortune. It will work for you when your time comes.
Margaux Bergen
Look closely for the fingerprints of God's faithfulness throughout the seasons of your life.
Nancy Kay Grace
A shared table is the supreme expression of hospitality in every culture on earth. When your worn-out kitchen table hosts good people and good conversation, when it provides a safe place to break bread and share wine, your house becomes a sanctuary, holy as a cathedral. I've left a friend's table as sanctified and renewed as any church service. If you have a porch, then you have an altar to gather around.
Jen Hatmaker
When someone is happy and satisfied with himself and things around him, divine grace resides at his face.
Girdhar Joshi
Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.
Richard J. Foster
In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.
Flannery O'Connor
Grace is loving people for who they are, where they are. It's loving people *before* they change, not just *after* they change. And that grace is the difference between holy and holier-than-thou. Holiness, in its purest form, is irresistible. That's why sinners couldn't be kept away from Jesus. Hypocrisy has the opposite effect. It's as repulsive to the irreligious as the Pharisees' religiosity was to Jesus.
Mark Batterson
Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous.
Mac Canoza
Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.
Rachel Naomi Remen

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