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Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.
I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God.
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.
You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)
There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
For he who has died has been freed from sin...14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.
The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.
Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.
Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.
As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
Even with the trials of life, because of the Savior's Atonement and his grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace.
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.
There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.
When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.
But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.
The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.
God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.
God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.
There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.
By God's grace, the only property my parents gave me was a good body. No BP, no sugar, no hereditary problems. Small build, tight skin.
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.
Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.
If you believe that the economy has more power over you than GRACE does, then you will buy into that story and start to live that life.
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so.
My chains are gone I've been set free My God, my Savior has ransomed me And like a flood His mercy reigns Unending love, amazing grace!
By God's grace and strength of my work, I've managed to build a respectable image that I use to serve both my continent and my country.
Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.
Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe.
My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.
Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.
While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.
The things I believe in now are grace and the power of human connection to change hearts and minds and the importance of civil dialogue.
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.
Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.
In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.
"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.
So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.
There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.