Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Sometimes I feel like I’m sailing on a sunken dream

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities...

The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace–bottle after bottle of pure...

All roads out of hell lead home.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

He was everything I’d ever wanted, and everything I hadn’t even known I needed.

Have you forgotten what it feels like to be alive? The grace of life shining on you; each breath vitalizing you with possibility? Remember!

What can you do how much can you give to bring grace and salvation unto even one soul

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence...

It may not of happened the way you thought it would, but in the long run it will work out as it should.

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges...

My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.

Truth in Christ is not a matter of being near or far like in martial arts when you strive for a black belt. He saves us then we grow; not the other way around.

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

If you are convinced about your choices, go with full hope that you will get there by the grace of God!

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.

None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It’s by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.

The LAW points you to self-efforts. GRACE points you to the finished work of Jesus Christ.

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn’t. Copper will do.

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

His self-righteousness has prevented him from enjoying the grace all around him.

If anyone had a right to lecture people about their sin, it was the sinless son of God. If even he could meet sinners as equals, how much more should we Christians—all sinners ourselves—treat as...

Never forget what you were saved from.

Taking the Right Decision in any situation only requires TWO major ingredients:Critical Thinking and Grace.Critical Thinking is like ‘Works’ and Grace is like ‘Faith’. So if “Faith without Works is dead,” then same, I believe,...

there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those...

May spending time with You be my first priority, may listening and obeying mark my life, may extravagant childlike joy and amazement mark my demeanor, may an openness to share your grace quickly and easily...

High and holy ambition–to be a saint–is not opposed to holy humility–total reliance on God’s grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov...

Don’t ever leave us again. Vaughn has been horrible. Like pre-Grace horrible.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects...

God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace”.R. Alan Woods [2012]

Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.

Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you’ll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you...

Do you really think that you stop looking for a soulmate at our age? Do you honestly believe that God would stop caring about how much I needed it still, just because I am nearing...

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

I love that there’s no cutoff where we get labeled and sent off to a home for hopeless, cranky, depressives. Every day is a new chance to listen longer and be braver and love more....

It is unearned love–the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It’s the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered...

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they’re asked.

But if I’ve learned anything about the world of grace, it’s that failure is always a chance for a do-over.

Then round about the age of twenty-five, I was tired of being tired of being scared about doing something that, if I deconstruct it honestly, might somehow cost me my salvation and make God love...

When thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet ‘underneath’ thee ‘are everlasting arms’. Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ’s great atonement is still under all.

True class can never receive the highest grade..for its grade is endless

We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if...

For dinner I had seared sneer with a glaze of distant gaze, and a side of mashed pride covered in grace.

The difference between black and white is Grace!” EL

When grace is in-charge, mistakes are out-rightly neglected

We have created a culture of leadership “development” in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.

God love’s in the dark.

We all have that divine moment, when our lives are transformed by the knowledge of the truth.