Quotes about Grace

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

We have to believe in the mercy and grace of God to trigger conversion rather than the other way around: that you're only going to get the mercy if you have a conversion. The economy of salvation doesn't work that way.

There are days when my heart is troubled, and just being in the Lord's presence and thinking about His love for me fills my heart with inexplicable peace and joy.

It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It's about God who wants to give to you.

Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.

Everybody wants to be loved. God already loves you; all you have to do is believe and accept it.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.