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• True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

  Bill W.

  Ambition, Profound, Grace

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• Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.

  John Newton

  Sweet, Grace, Sound

  Olney Hymns "Amazing Grace" (1779)

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• The Bible makes it really clear that if I am not receptive to the grace of God I am headed toward wrath.

  Rick Warren

  Wrath, Grace, Clear

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

  Adam Clarke

  Grace, Sin, Shows

  Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.201

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• The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

  Alan Redpath

  Hero, Order, Grace

  Alan Redpath (2004). “The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David”, p.6, Baker Books

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• Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Air, Blood

  Mother Teresa (1985). “Mother Teresa: Contemplative in the Heart of the World”

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• I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Grace, Free Will

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• The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Grace, And Love

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.45, InterVarsity Press

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• The grace of God is like insurance. It will help you in your time of need without any limit.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Grace, Needs, Limits

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 09, 2017

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• Do not become self-sufficient . Self-sufficienc y is Satan’s net where he catches men, like poor silly fish, and destroys them. Be not self-sufficient . The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself. God pours no power into man’s heart till man’s power is all poured out. Live, then, daily, a life of dependence on the grace of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strong, Silly, Heart

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• I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.

  Rich Mullins

  Fall, Thinking, Ideas

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• Tell of his wondrous faithfulness,
  And sound his power abroad;
  Sing the sweet promise of his grace,
  And the performing God.

  Isaac Watts

  Sweet, Grace, Promise

  "An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of Isaac Watts".

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• None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

  Matthew Henry

  Hate, Justice Of God, Grace

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.125, Harper Collins

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• Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

  William Arthur Ward

  Grace, Charity, Oneself

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• The grace of God comes swiftly to the soul when endurance is no longer possible.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Grace, Soul

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

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• The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Perfection, Grace, Pretending

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2015

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• I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

  John Newton

  Grace, World, Want

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• Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Love You, Grace, Together

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• The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Grace

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• We walk upon the grace of god. Nothing else exists except that.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Grace, Walks

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• The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Taken, Grace, World

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• The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Business, Hard Work, Sweat

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.72, Vintage

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• Peace is not automatic. It is a gift of the grace of God. It comes when hearts are exposed to the love of Christ. But this always costs something. For the love of Christ was demonstrated through suffering and those who experience that love can never put it into practice without some cost.

  Festo Kivengere

  Love, God, Christian

  Festo Kivengere, Dorothy Smoker (1977). “I Love Idi Amin: The Story of Triumph Under Fire in the Midst of Suffering and Persecution in Uganda”

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• The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

  Ramakrishna

  God, Wind, Grace

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• Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness).

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Winning, Grace, Quality

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