From beginning to end, our Christian lives— highs and lows, fasting and fornication— are a tapestry of grace.Charis: God’s Scandalous Grace for Us (p. 31).

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

So,” she says, “What’s got you so busy?””What?” he says, “Oh, um, I was trying to perfect my telepathy.” Grace gasps and bulges her eyes out very wide. “Are…you okay?” he asks, finally, after she...

We are all trophies of God’s grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to...

My vision of the gathered church that had come to me… had been replaced by a vision of the gathered community. What I saw now was the community imperfect and irresolute but held together by...

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may...

Jesus Is The Resurrection, therefore, Resurrection Is Not A Thing Or An Event, RESURRECTION Is A PERSONALITY”.

Without it, religion will surely suffocate you.” Because so many of us are gasping for air and grasping for God, but fleeing from a kind of religious experience that has little to do with anything...

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.

The light of love, the purity of grace,The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole —And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

Grace cannot be confused with righteousness. Grace is receiving what we do not deserve; mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. Righteousness, on the other hand, includes what most of us would consider difficult...

Grace silences the voice of accusation and wipes all the evidence of guilt

I need God’s grace and something baked with peanut butter and chocolate.

The burden of sin leads you to the need of a savior

Grace is not a doctrine or a religion. It is a person, Jesus Christ.

Come, come into this circle of grace and friendship.Come bringing only your open heart.You owe us nothing but truth, you need no heavy armor here.Show us your beautiful scars, the evidence of adventures you’ve survived.Tell...

I’m never one, distinct color but a dichotomy of dark and bright. The hues follow me, reflecting my mood, displaying every tone and shade I feel. I can breathe in red and exhale blue, or...

The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb… And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed...

Stuckley drew back his sword with evident satisfaction. “She really is your Achilles’ heel, isn’t she Furey?””No.” Lorcan said, preparing his own attack. “Not my Achilles’ heel.The love of my life. And I’ll do whatever...

Justice is the virtue we ‘d rather have done unto others than practiced on ourselves.

It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

The gospel is not mere forgiveness or grace, empty of content, but always refers to Jesus. So the gospel is good news about a human person who is God in our history, our world and...

We must be willing to get rid ofthe life we’ve planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for us.The old skin has to be shedbefore the new one can come.If we fix on...

I don’t care what it looks, I don’t care what it feels like, I believe God.

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

What grace I have is enough.

Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way

Sweetheart, I remember every second from the first moment I laid eyes on you and I’ve been trying to get my world upright ever since.

When we fail, we cut the string. Then God ties it up again, making a knot and thereby bringing us a little closer to Him. Again and again our failures cut the string, and with...

I speak the unseen into seeing and I can feel it, this steady breathing in the rhythm of grace–‘give thanks (in), give thanks (out)’.

Take a step in the right direction and you will find your smile again. It will be there beaming by the light of God’s amazing grace.

Ben Adisson eee…sadece Adisson,çünkü bana daha bir soyad vermedin.

Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with...

Got plans for the rest of the day?”I looked back at him and my heart just stopped. Then it just started again thudding erratically. What the hell does that mean? I feel like I’m having...

Sometimes grace is having the strength to persevere through the storm.Sometimes it’s having the guts to rebuild, to take a chance, to follow your nose and your heart rather than your head.Sometimes grace is finding...

I don’t like this war. I don’t like the cold-blooded scheming at the beginning and the carnage at the end and the grumbling and the jealousies and the pettishness in the middle. I hate the...

What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men...

Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally,...

If you get a second chance, grab it with the first and second hands. Never let it go till all is done and done well. Second chances come with the last graces!

What is God’s part and what is man’s part? God’s part is grace. Man’s part is faith.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Never compromise the glorious Gospel. It is the Gospel “from” Christ and not merely a Gospel “about” Christ. Gal 1:6-12