Quotes about Grace

To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

How do we make new and restorative of soul the old pain? How do we learn to carry with grace and humor all that has happened to us?

Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extereme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Try not to hold her fears against her. At the end she understood, and believed. And forgave-whatever there was to forgive.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him.

John 1:12 says, 'As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name.' And the apostle Paul told us in Ephesians, 'By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Other believers had suffered in this country. Others had died at these hands, and hands like them. Jesus had suffered far worse. He had suffered and bled and died for her. For her sins. To set her free. To adopt her as a child into His family. To bring her into His Kingdom. Forever. How could she not be willing to suffer and bleed and die for Him? If that's what He asked, she would do it. With the strength He gave her. By the grace He provided. And maybe she would see Him soon, face-to-face.

But for his grace, things could have turned out differently, many times.

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.