Quotes about Grace

God is glorified not in your strengths and not in your gratefulness, but in your weaknesses and in your trust in His future grace. In your faith that God didn't let you

don't judge God based on your understanding of people. God isn't just a really good guy up in the sky. He is God. He operates on an entirely different set of rules. We'll never deserve His love, but He knows that, and He's chosen to love us anyway. We can accept it or not. But that doesn't change who He is. He's a God who loves us more than we can imagine and desires to fulfill the dreams He gives His children.

God is our refuge and our portion. Meaning, we don't have to be enough. He is all we need. We either embrace that or we walk away empty-handed.

I don't deserve the best." Mona's voice broke. "None of us do. But while we were still sinners, God chose to give us His best, and He will do nothing less after we are adopted as His children. We don't deserve grace, but because of God's character, we can expect it! If this dream is from Him, then you can expect Him to make it come true.

God knows how tough it is to forgive, especially when someone has done you wrong. But He does expect you to do it. And He expects you to be patient and trust Him to work in others' lives. Psalm 37. It's one of my favorites, especially when I know God wants me to do something impossible, like forgive.

God wants to break through the identities we've constructed for ourselves, the fears we have of discovery, to say, "I see you. I know you. I know everything about you, and yet I love you. Period. You don't have to fear the truth with Me because I already know it. I know exactly who you are, and I still died to save you.

When you forgive someone, it gives you room in your heart to love them.

That we shouldn't base God's desire to help us on our opinions of ourselves. Otherwise we'd always be in over our heads. We need to start believing that he wants to help us. Even when we make mistakes.

Apart from you, I have no good thing,' and that God fills him with joy in His presence. It helps me remember that I'm not alone.

love doesn't come from us - it's born in us, a birthright from God. We can't manufacture it, we can only release what He's given us. That nudge to forgive? I told you— I think that's love trying to break free.

And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.

And hello, maybe you're exactly where you are supposed to be...maybe God used your issues to give you exactly what you wanted.