Quotes about Grace

Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories...

I have, by God's grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God's mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.

The gospel will not ever tell us we are innocent, but it will tell us that we are loved; and in asking us to receive and consent to that love, or asks us to identify with, and make our own, love's comprehensive vision of all we are and have been.

salvation consists primarily in his beginning to sorrow earnestly over himself!

Infinite humiliation and grace, and then a striving born of gratitude — this is Christianity.

In that Manhood crucified; And each thought and deed unruly Do to death, as He has died. Simply to His grace and wholly Light and life and strength belong, And I love, supremely, solely, Him the holy, Him the strong.

Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touchdown act like you've been there before.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.