Grace means God gives. Faith means I receive.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of...

There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key...

The sin and guilt of the human race was imputed to the spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ when He became the sin offering for the world.

When you have nothing to offer, love gives abundantly.

Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.

Do you know whether or not you are in God’s grace?Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

There are times when you have to fight with your inner spirit. The grace of God is the power of liberation.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to...

…she made her home in between the pages of books.

Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us in our sin and transforms us for God’s glory and the healing of God’s world. In the...

Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.

There is no shame here. The places where we still fear are simply the places we have yet to fully receive God’s love. Only by his grace and in his love can we let our...

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

Screw pretty. I’d rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.

I wish I could just fling myself into bed with you, but I can’t. I don’t want to be used that way and I don’t want to use you! Can’t you understand that?

…there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, has been dead all along. The blame game was over...

Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.

Kind words produce their images on men’s souls.

Can they admit it? And will they let me admit it too?

I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace’s arrival. But no, it’s clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the...

Will & Grace.

Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms...

I’ve heard it said that grace is God reaching God’s hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of the body of Christ, that if we let the Spirit move...

If a man were to sow a field, he could not excuse his neglect by saying that it would be useless to sow unless God caused the seed to grow. He would not be justified...

…While grace does do away with the need for good works, it’s grace which also makes good works truly possible. If good works don’t play into your salvation, then doing them is a sheer act...

I am a student of forgiveness and so far I am failing miserably the saving grace is that I will not quit.

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...

Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!” EL

It takes grace to breakthrough to heaven while it takes faith to breakthrough on earth.

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

We have taught this generation how to “market” the Gospel but we have neglected to encourage them to “preach” the Gospel.

Love is a heart smile.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.

You have enough grace for each day task.

By loving people without cause, he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.” It would be hard to find a more succinct description of the chief work of the Holy Spirit in the human heart.

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

The ‘Dance of Love’ is much more of a dialogue, one takes the lead and the other follows. One dictates a step and the other carries it out. One determines the direction, the other determines...

I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over the shelves, seeking possibilities for escape.

She will always be the rainbow in my clouds.

I’m not thrilled. And I totally reserve the right to angst over all this later. But honestly, Mom? Right now, I’m so happy to see you that I wouldn’t care if you’re secretly a ninja...

Vaughn folded his arms. ‘The reason why you’ve lasted longer than most of your erstwhile colleagues is because you don’t do drama. I don’t like drama. I get enough drama at home. My wife could...

Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God’s grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God’s grace even after we’re saved.

Though the gospel amnesty which grace proclaims makes no exceptions, for Divine grace has no limits, there are limits to the time within which the amnesty avails. And if sinners despise grace there is nothing...

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Properly understood, the doctrine of sin means that believers are never as good as our true worldview should make us. Similarly, the doctrine of grace means as messed up their false worldview should make them.

It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.