Quotes about Receiving Grace
Do not be thinking of how little you have to bring God, but of how much He wants to give you.
— Andrew Murray
We have always made it hard for God to give away God for free.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Mary is all of us both receiving and handing on the gift. We liked her precisely because she was one of us—and not God!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
If Christ and Jesus are the archetypes of what God is doing, Mary is the archetype of how to receive what God is doing and hand it on to others.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.
— Martin Luther
There is no hope for any of us until we confess our helplessness . Then we are in a position to receive grace
— Elisabeth Elliot
A weak hand may receive a rich jewel. A few grapes will show that the plant is a vine, and not a thorn. It is one thing to be deficient in grace, and another thing to lack grace altogether. God knows we have nothing of ourselves
— Richard Sibbes
what kept coming back to me was that one word gift. Receiving, and then passing it along. Opening up to power and force and energy way beyond me, letting it move through me.
— Rob Bell
Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.
— Joseph Prince
God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.
— St. Augustine
We bring nothing to God, and He gives us everything.
— Gary Thomas