God Grace Quotes

Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him. ~ Arthur W. Pink

Living life is the greatest grace from God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred. ~ Dean Koontz

I will hold my babies in my hand at sacred-time. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God. Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more - no amount of spiritual calisthenics and renunciations, no amount of knowledge gained from seminaries and divinity schools, no amount of crusading on behalf of righteous causes. And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less - no amount of racism or pride or pornography or adultery or even murder. Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love. ~ Philip Yancey

Prayer is the breath of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. ~ Gerrit Smith

We are a new creation by God's grace. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O Lord, I commit my plans into thy mighty hands, guide me along straight path. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Although claiming my true identity as a child of God, I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation. I still think about his love as conditional and about home as a place I am not yet fully sure of. While walking home, I keep entertaining doubts about whether I will be truly welcome when I get there. As I look at my spiritual journey, my long and fatiguing trip home, I see how full it is of guilt about the past and worries about the future. I realize my failures and know that I have lost the dignity of my sonship, but I am not yet able to fully believe that where my failings are great, 'grace is always greater.' Still clinging to my sense of worthlessness, I project for myself a place far below that which belongs to the son, (p. 52). ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people. Far from being a book full of moral heroes whom we are commanded to emulate, what we discover is that the so-called heroes in the Bible are not really heroes at all. They fall and fail; they make huge mistakes; they get afraid; they're selfish, deceptive, egotistical, and unreliable. The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. ~ Tullian Tchividjian

May we uphold God's grace, goodness and goodwill. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God gives grace for good work. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Repentance in Greek means something much closer to "thinking differently afterward" than it does "changing your cheating ways." Of course repentance can look like a prostitute becoming a librarian, but it can also look like a prostitute simply saying, "OK, I'm a sex worker and I don't know how to change that, but I can come here and receive bread and wine and I can hold onto the love of God without being deemed worthy of it by anyone but God. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Pray for God's grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside. ~ Elizabeth George

The nativity mystery "conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary", means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his "climbing down of God" is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us. ~ Karl Barth

Blessed be the grateful soul! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We do fall away from faith. God's grace gives us strength to rise again. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgiveness is the ultimate expression of God's unique beauty. ~ Matt Chandler

You can't win the race without God's grace ~ Ojo Michael E.

My friends, I do not believe it is preaching Christ and him crucified, to give people a batch of philosophy every Sunday morning and evening, and neglect the truths of this Holy Book. I do not believe it is preaching Christ and him crucified, to leave out the main cardinal doctrines of the Word of God, and preach a religion which is all a mist and a haze, without any definite truths whatever. I take it that man does not preach Christ and him crucified, who can get through a sermon without mentioning Christ's name once; nor does that man preach Christ and him crucified, who leaves out the Holy Spirit's work, who never says a word about the Holy Ghost, so that indeed the hearers might say, "We do not so much as know whether there be a Holy Ghost." And I have my own private opinion, that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and him crucified, unless you preach what now-a-days is called Calvinism. I have my own ideas, and those I always state boldly. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism. Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith without works; not unless we preach the sovereignty of God in his dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor, I think, can we preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the peculiar redemption which Christ made for his elect and chosen people; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets s ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

May I remember the goodness of the Lord at all times. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic. ~ Criss Jami

The Maker is very great in mercy. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God's great love is the grace of redemption. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let us allow God to fill our hearts with his goodness and mercy. ~ Pope Francis

All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame, without blame, and without fear. I am all loved, all accepted, and all in service to God. In his eyes, regardless of what I did or didn't do today, I am loved. I am His, so I am enough. ~ Anna White

There is a helplessness in poverty that precedes the move of God in our lives because we understand an aspect of grace that so many miss: we do nothing to earn it. When we understand this, all becomes grace. ~ Alia Joy

If your altar is not active, your voice will not be strong ~ Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

Dare the impossible. By grace it will be possible. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it. ~ Anne Lamott

the beautiful demonstratuin of God' Grace is the Grace HIMSELF, Grace of Gos is the way of life and the way to life... ~ BROEVA

The sacred-time will hold my babies in my hand. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

if a man runs with man is called as "Race" but if a man runs towards God is called as "Grace". ~ Grace Of God

The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff. ~ Criss Jami

Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it. ~ Monica Johnson

A New Year brings new grace for new accomplishments. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God is a lot of things to a lot of people but I don't think He is a cheap party host with limited grace to give out. ~ Hannah Brencher

Grace is the power of God! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The fight of faith can only be won with the grace of God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Grace is God-divine favour. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. ~ John R.W. Stott

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love. ~ Eric Wilson

A glorious life is a spark of divinity. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O Lord saves us from overworking!
Grant us grace to rest awhile. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God gives much grace for great work. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Indeed we also work, but we are only collaborating with God who works, for his mercy has gone before us. It has gone before us so that we may be healed, and follows us so that once healed, we may be given life; it goes before us so that we may be called, and follows us so that we may be glorified; it goes before us so that we may live devoutly, and follows us so that we may always live with God: for without him we can do nothing. ~ Augustine Of Hippo

If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just. ~ Timothy Keller

But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infinite reason there is that he should be holy in a high degree. And the more grace he has, and the more this is opened to view, the greater sense he has of the infinite excellency and glory of the divine Being, and of the infinite dignity of the person of Christ, and the boundless length and breadth and depth and height of the love of Christ to sinners. And as grace increases, the field opens more and more to a distant view, until the soul is swallowed up with the vastness of the object, and the person is astonished to think how much it becomes him to love this God and this glorious Redeemer that has so loved man, and how little he does love. And so the more he apprehends, the more the smallness of his grace and love appears strange and wonderful: and therefore he is more ready to think that others are beyond him. ~ Jonathan Edwards

Picture salvation as a house that you live in. It provides you with protection. It is stocked with food and drink that will last forever. It never decays or crumbles. Its windows open onto vistas of glory. God built it at great cost to Himself and to His Son, and He gave it to you. The purchase agreement is called a 'new covenant.' The terms read: 'This house shall become and remain yours if you will receive it as a gift and take delight in the Father and the Son as they inhabit the house with you. You shall not profane the house of God by sheltering other gods nor turn our heart away after other treasures.' Would it not be foolish to say yes to this agreement, and then hire a lawyer to draw up an amortization schedule with monthly payments in the hopes of somehow balancing accounts. You would be treating the house no longer as a gift, but a purchase. God would no longer be the free benefactor. And you would be enslaved to a new set of demands that he never dreamed of putting on you. If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid. ~ John Piper

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God. ~ John Bunyan

Daring a greater life is a divine act. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Two great prayers;
Yahweh, grant me grace for my daily activities.
Yahweh, protect me from all evil, so that my life will be free of pain in Jesus name. Amen! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If Christians read Holy Scripture, they will grow in the Knowledge of Christ. And be filled with the grace of God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist? ~ John Wesley

Do not take the grace of God for granted. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But though hast come and all will surely change. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Heavy burden is laid on our hearts, so we do not trust in ourselves. But in God gives grace for endurance. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Heaven is the only place where prayers are not made. ~ Ellen J. Barrier

With much prayer comes great grace from God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy. ~ Elizabeth George

Grace," he said suddenly. "On Sunday I'll talk about the quality of grace, which I suppose is a gift of a kind---of goodness and mercy undeserved, and unexpected."
"That'll do for your sermon," she said. "That's quite enough. Let them go home early and walk in the forest, and find God there. ~ Sarah Perry

God's grace is the power of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are a generation of lovers who long to be loved. We spend exorbitant amounts of money to compel others to delight in us. We construct our ideal life on Facebook because we are unsatisfied with our real life, which is tainted with boredom, loneliness, insecurity, and a lack of friends and followers . We do not enjoy the person God created us to be or the life God has gifted us with. We think we are overweight, underweight, too pale, too dark, too plain, or just plain boring. Yet we crave to be delighted in by a significant other. So we pursue misguided avenues to make ourselves delightful, to satisfy our craving to be loved.
Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us (pp. 118-119). ~ Preston Sprinkle

Grace is giving yourself a free pass and realizing that it isn't free at all. ~ Erin Loechner

Christians can grow in the grace of Christ, with knowledge of God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him. ~ Fulton J. Sheen

I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for. ~ Shane Claiborne

The grace and mercy by which you are not arrested for not paying your daily oxygen bills, is the grace that is sufficient to take you through successfully. It's the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Enjoy it! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

LORD God, please give us grace to obey thy great laws. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. ~ Tullian Tchividjian

If I had to sum up the gospel I should have to tell you certain facts: Jesus, the Son of God, became man; he was born of the virgin Mary; lived a perfect life; was falsely accused of men; was crucified, dead, and buried; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God; from whence he shall also come to judge the quick and the dead. This is one of the elementary truths of our gospel; we believe in the resurrection of the dead, the final judgment, and the life everlasting. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The spirit of divinity is the spirit of being. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful graces of God. ~ William Kent Krueger

God! His grace is always strong enough to pick me up" - Gavhi Theron.P ~ Gavhi Theron

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques. ~ Thomas Merton

Outside, it feels like there is less standing between the Creator and us. There is a lingering visceral connection we can hear and see and smell, reminders of the bond between Creator and creation, like the mountain sage crushed up in the pocket of the sweatshirt I was wearing on a short, muddy hike the other day. In ~ Cathleen Falsani

Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God. ~ Tullian Tchividjian

The anchor of my life is the grace of God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God. ~ David Lloyd-Jones

I am a happy healthy soul by divine grace. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. ~ Anonymous

Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do. ~ Joyce Meyer

We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most we can do through genuine prayer, is to make as much room as possible, in ourselves and in the world, for the kingdom of God, so that its energies can go to work. All that we can show our contemporaries of the reality of God springs from contemplation: Jesus Christ, the Church, our own selves. ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

God's grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and even the planet, and God's grace to me is that my brokenness is not the final word ... it's that God makes beautiful things out of even my own shit. Grace isn't about God creating humans and flawed beings and then acting all hurt when we inevitably fail and then stepping in like the hero to grant us grace - like saying, "Oh, it's OK, I'll be the good guy and forgive you." It's God saying, "I love the world too much to let your sin define you and be the final word. I am a God who makes all things new. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Thank God for his loving kindness and tender mercies. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge.Grace. True union with the divine. I find that sort of prayer so much more difficult than the other, because it requires an extreme emotional and spiritual vulnerability. It's frighting,because we're trained not to expose the weakest parts of ourselves, the things that cause us pain and shame and suffering. It's those same things that often block our access to God
basically, we stand in our own way. ~ Anna Jarzab

GRACE means God Redeems And Christ Empowers! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Grace doesn't grease the wheels of the law. Grace isn't God's way of jury rigging a broken law. It's the other way around. The law is just one small cog in a world animated entirely--from top to bottom, from beginning to end--by grace. ~ Adam S. Miller

The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God. ~ John Cassian

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God. ~ Jonathan Edwards

The body is a temple, where God dwells. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I can always pray to God with confidence because my righteous state is a gift given through grace in faith on the cross by Jesus! ~ Alisa Hope Wagner

(re: Grace and Truth + Time = Growth)

"Grace is the first ingredient necessary for growing up in the image of God. Grace is unbroken, uninterrupted, unearned, accepting relationship...Grace, then, is the relational aspect of God's character.
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Truth is the second ingredient necessary...truth is the structural aspect of [God's] character. Truth is the skeleton life hangs upon; it adds shape to everything in the universe. God's truth leads us to what is real, to what is accurate.
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Time is not just an act of God's grace, to us, 'giving us some space.' God is much too loving to allow us to continue in sin for one moment longer than necessary. Time is not a luxury, but a necessity. ~ Henry Cloud

We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God. ~ Francis Chan

The grace of God is courtesy. ~ Hilaire Belloc

Of course, if one does not fully trust the promise of God's Kingdom, he will have a hard time taking risks and making sacrifices in this life. A gospel centered around the temporal self - fleeting happiness, earthly success, vain prosperity, things such as these - is the primary ambition of the half-hearted Christian; the one who somewhat believes he is subject to an eternal death; the one who just might believe in men before God, who morbidly fears seeming less than anyone else. The man of this school feels deeply that he has but one life to live, that this must be his only chance, and therefore must have it all in his favor - from glory to comfort to riches - and have it right this instant. He is but hinting that he is overcome because he insists always that he must overcome, that his judgment comes now and by the persons around him. The point is, however, in this sense, that by grace the Christian is indeed free, but only for as long as he wants to be free - the practicality of true freedom: that of God which offers not so much freedom to be like the world as it does freedom from the pressures of having to be like the world. For Divine Law is based solely on love and freedom; whereas secular law, pressure and imitation. ~ Criss Jami

May you find grace to overcome self-doubt. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The truth is in Jesus and it leads to the fullness of truth about God, man, creation, history, sin, righteousness, grace, faith, salvation, life, death, purpose, meaning, relationships, heaven, hell, judgement, eternity, and everything else of ultimate consequence. ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.