Grace Quotes - Page 40

• Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christianity, Monastic Life, Protest

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• The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Essence, Discipleship, Accounts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.3, SCM Press

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• And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.

  Edward Everett

  Should, Grace Of God

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• In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.

  Ursula Hegi

  Writing, Loss, Ordinary Moments

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• What does it matter, all is grace.

  Georges Bernanos

  Doe, Matter, Does It Matter

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• What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.

  Matthew Henry

  And Love, Done, Holiness

  Matthew Henry (1808). “An exposition of all the books of the Old and New Testaments: ...: Wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents: the sacred text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs ... largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations”, p.17

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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, Ruined

  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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• Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to all men on the condition of faith. Both are right in what they assert; both are wrong in what they deny. If one important truth is pressed to the exclusion of another truth of equal importance, it becomes an error, and loses its hold upon the conscience. The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them.

  Philip Schaff

  Christian, Responsibility, Men

  Philip Schaff, David Schley Schaff (1984). “History of the Christian Church, Volume 8 Modern Christianity the Swiss Reformation”, Eerdmans Pub Co

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• What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.

  Ann Beattie

  Aim, Happens

  Ann Beattie (2011). “Burning House”, p.23, Vintage

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• Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment 'as to the Lord.' It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Long

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• What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith! How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners! If we were to rely on our works-my God, what would become of us?

  George Frideric Handel

  Church, Wonderful, Christ

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• How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Heart, Air, Judging

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.62, Tuttle Publishing

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• There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

  David Romtvedt

  Tolerance, Judgment, Arise

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• Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Mean, Practice, Lessons

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• God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time informed, he desires to enlighten by his special grace. What must we think of a revelation which, far from teaching us any thing, is calculated to darken and puzzle the clearest ideas?

  Baron d'Holbach

  Teaching, Thinking, Ideas

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• Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Wind, Play, Tape

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by his gloriously masculine men who work their jobs, eat their meat, drink their beer, romance their wives, study their Bible, and raise their kids in glory and joy

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Jesus, Jobs

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• Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

  Francis Chan

  Stress, Crazy Love, Important

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.28, David C Cook

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• I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

  Donald Miller

  Giving, Charity, Want

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

  Christopher Dawson

  Order, Culture, Divinity

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• What will it cost you, oh Mary, to hear our prayer? What will it cost you to save us? Has not Jesus placed in your hands all the treasures of His grace and mercy? You sit crowned Queen at the right hand of your son: your dominion reaches as far as the heavens and to you are subject the earth and all creatures dwelling thereon. Your dominion reaches even down into the abyss of hell, and you alone, oh Mary, save us from the hands of Satan.

  Pope Pius X

  Jesus, Queens, Prayer

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• Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier. This comes about in many ways: by their lightening each other's burdens through mutual help; by constant and faithful love; by having all their possessions in common; and by the heavenly grace which flows from the sacrament.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Husband, Race, Mutual Help

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.57, TAN Books

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• In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence

  Ry Cooder

  Music, Taken, Guitar

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• I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing down before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace-just as I am.

  Billy Graham

  Gratitude, Looks, Done

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• To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Virtue, Man Of God

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