Quotes about Grace

All our families are broken and marred by the effects of the Fall.

His grace is sufficient.

God never discards any of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. He is the Lord! Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing when we surrender ourselves to him.

No other religion in the world reveals a personal God who loves us for who we are, not what we do.

To become a Christian and to be adopted into God's family with the new name of "Christian" does not erase the past. God does not give us amnesia or do emergency emotional/spiritual reconstructive surgery. God does forgive the past, but he does not erase it. We are given a new start, but we still come in as babies drinking milk and are expected to die daily to the parts of our lives that do not honor God and follow Jesus.

Unhealed wounds open us up to habitual sin against God and others.

Lord Jesus, help me love well like you.

You must let God teach you the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.35

God never loses any of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing.

are deeply loved by God for who we are, not for what we do.

Prayer Lord, I have spent much of my life running from pain and loss, medicating my pain and quickly moving on to the next project——the new urgent demand. I ask for the grace to embrace all of life—the joys and the sorrows, the deaths and the births, the old and the new. In Jesus' name, amen.

Not only does God not reject or punish us for being honest and transparent about our whole selves, but he actually accepts and loves us where we are. We are anchored in God's love as he gives us permission to express ourselves—the bad along with the good—and take care of ourselves in an appropriate way.