Quotes about Grace

Dear friends, our God continues to wrap us in His grace that we may perform our vows and keep our hearts pure and passionate in complete humility and service for now and evermore.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

The line in this song that slayed me the first time I heard it, and slays me every time I hear it, is 'I cannot explain the way that You came to love me, except to say that nothing is beyond You.

Christ in me" means Christ bearing me along from within, Christ the motive power that carries me on, Christ giving my whole life a wonderful poise and lift, and turning every burden into wings... not as something you have to bear but as something by which you are borne.

God loves us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

He had let go of the need to earn God's love

Asked to describe the Holy One, Jesus told the story of the father whose bond with his son, no matter the son's unworthiness, was unbreakable.

the grace of what makes him different, is what enables him to "stand up.

Separated Peter from the vile and suicidal Judas was that he, Peter, had lived long enough to find his offense transformed—through no merit of his own—by the loving acceptance of Jesus. The humiliated Peter was, in the same moment, the forgiven Peter.

Salvation is not the stopping point; it is the starting point.

Only authentic Christianity brings together both truth and grace.

Biblical unity is about working through conflicts, avoiding slander and gossip, and being generous in spirit. It is giving each other the benefit of the doubt, distributing ample doses of grace in the midst of our sin and imperfection, and demonstrating fierce loyalty.