Love Quotes - Page 213

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

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

Grace enters the soul where love lies serene.

Jay Woodman

People helping people, builds stronger communities

Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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 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

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

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

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

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

Lament invoked love.Woe invoked wonder.Grief invoked grace.Cry invoked celebration.(Page 80)

Neena Verma

I’m not God, and I can’t always offer chances. I’m not sure if this won’t be your last.

Kellyn Roth

... you can love completely without complete understanding.""That I have known and preached." my father said.

Norman Maclean

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

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

We will not be measured by the world’s standards anymore. We will be measured by the plumb line of God’s Word. We will be people who live out our Christianity by walking faithfully in obedience to God. We will love mercy and justice. We will love others the way God loves us— unconditionally, relentlessly, and with grace.

Teresa Schultz

We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.

Criss Jami

If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one might conclude that this is part of God's sovereign justice. His grace, however, is that He Himself will always be there for you, no matter what.

Criss Jami

Anyway, this girl... she's the love of my life. She's smart and funny and unbelievably compassionate. She forgives people even when they don't deserve it. She-""Good lay?" Pace interrupts. "Oh yeah. The best.

Elle Kennedy

My vision of the gathered church that had come to me... had been replaced by a vision of the gathered community. What I saw now was the community imperfect and irresolute but held together by the frayed and always fraying, incomplete and yet ever-holding bonds of the various sorts of affection. There had maybe never been anybody who had not been loved by somebody, who had been loved by somebody else, and so on and on... It was a community always disappointed in itself, disappointing its members, always trying to contain its divisions and gentle its meanness, always failing and yet always preserving a sort of will toward goodwill. I knew that, in the midst of all the ignorance and error, this was a membership; it was the membership of Port William and of no other place on earth. My vision gathered the community as it never has been and never will be gathered in this world of time, for the community must always be marred by members who are indifferent to it or against it, who are nonetheless its members and maybe nonetheless essential to it. And yet I saw them all as somehow perfected, beyond time, by one another's love, compassion, and forgiveness, as it is said we may be perfected by grace.

Wendell Berry

It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.

Robert Goolrick

My wolf was a cute guy and he was holding my hand. I could die happy.

Maggie Stiefvater

And yet, because I love thee, I obtainFrom that same love this vindicating grace,To live on still in love, and yet in vain

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Marilynne Robinson

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

William Paul Young

The nuns taught us there are two ways through life, the way of Nature and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries.Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it. And love is smiling through all things.

Terrence Malick

We live in an upside-down world. People hate when they should love, quarrel when they should be friendly, fight when they should be peaceful, wound when they should heal, steal when they should share,do wrong when they should do right.

Billy Graham

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God’s love for them in Christ.

Billy Graham

When Christ’s love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.

Billy Graham

The mystery of God’s love would not be a mystery if we knew all the answers.

Billy Graham

[The] love of God that reaches to wherever man is, can be entirely rejected. God will not force Himself upon anyone against his will. It is your part to believe. It is your part to receive. Nobody else can do it for you.

Billy Graham

God’s love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move.

Billy Graham

It was God’s love which knew that men were incapable of obeying His law, and it was His love which promised a Redeemer, a Savior, who would save His people from their sins.

Billy Graham

No one can grasp the love of the God of the universe without knowing His Son.

Billy Graham

Speak about the love of God and faces light up, but speak of God as a Judge, and our attitudes change.

Billy Graham

There is one thing God’s love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.

Billy Graham

Our popular music talks constantly about love, and yet divorce rates skyrocket.

Billy Graham

God is love” means that He tries constantlyto block your route to destruction.

Billy Graham

What relationships need strengthening in your life? Don’t wait for them to grow cold or bitter, but ask God to help you strengthen them by putting God’s love into action—begin today.

Billy Graham

[Christians] are commanded to love our neighbors, and the first step in doing this is to show a watching world that Christ reigns within us.

Billy Graham

Agape love is selfless love . . . the love God wants us to have isn’t just an emotion but a conscious act of the will—a deliberate decision on our part to put others ahead of ourselves. This is the kind of love God has for us.

Billy Graham

Until the Good News of Jesus Christ burst onto the human scene,the word love was understood mostly in terms of seeking one’s own advantage. Loving the unlovely was incomprehensible A loving God reaching down to sinful humans was unthinkable.

Billy Graham

Scripture makes it clear that our first love is always to be for our Lord.

Billy Graham

When you truly love someone, you want to please and honor them by the way you act. How you treat someone shows whether or not you really care about them.

Billy Graham

If we truly love Christ, we will want to please and honor Him by the way we live. Even the thought of hurting Him or bringing disgrace to His name will be abhorrent to us.

Billy Graham

True love is an act of the will—a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.

Billy Graham

God has not changed. His laws have not changed. He is still a God of love and mercy But He is also a God of righteousness and judgment.

Billy Graham

God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then to obey it.

Billy Graham

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that because God is love everything is going to be sweet, beautiful, and happy and that no one will be punished for his sins . . . God’s love provided the cross of Jesus, by which we can have forgiveness and cleansing.

Billy Graham

A God of love must be a God of justice. It is because God loves that He is just. His justice balances His love and makes His acts of bothlove and justice meaningful.

Billy Graham

God could not consistently love men if He did not provide for the judgment of evildoers.

Billy Graham

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