grace

I love my own graceful gracious gracesensitive by sensitivity as can be.Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion of Blue CircleOctober 21, 2016

Life-giving ministry flows from lives that are full of gratitude to God, not with an expectation of gratitude from others. In community we can support one another, affirm contributions and yet also trust that our work is sustained by grace.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

My vision of the gathered church that had come to me... had been replaced by a vision of the gathered community. What I saw now was the community imperfect and irresolute but held together by the frayed and always fraying, incomplete and yet ever-holding bonds of the various sorts of affection. There had maybe never been anybody who had not been loved by somebody, who had been loved by somebody else, and so on and on... It was a community always disappointed in itself, disappointing its members, always trying to contain its divisions and gentle its meanness, always failing and yet always preserving a sort of will toward goodwill. I knew that, in the midst of all the ignorance and error, this was a membership; it was the membership of Port William and of no other place on earth. My vision gathered the community as it never has been and never will be gathered in this world of time, for the community must always be marred by members who are indifferent to it or against it, who are nonetheless its members and maybe nonetheless essential to it. And yet I saw them all as somehow perfected, beyond time, by one another's love, compassion, and forgiveness, as it is said we may be perfected by grace.

Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.

Oh, the best dancers know/what grace/every stumble/contains.

Stuckley drew back his sword with evident satisfaction. "She really is your Achilles' heel, isn't she Furey?""No." Lorcan said, preparing his own attack. "Not my Achilles' heel.The love of my life. And I'll do whatever it takes to protect her.

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church

There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus

We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team; but yours would look better than mine, cause you're outta my league.

Grace is not just enough, it is more than enough. 2 Peter 1:2

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 silence, in the dark.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

Her tone changed from shocked to curious. __ow was it? Was it_ different?__arah bit her lip, ashamed to be gossiping but feeling the strong urge to tell. __es,__he confided. __e__ nothing like John. Nothing like him at all.___eally? What was different? Did he_?_ Grace waved a hand as though erasing achalkboard. __h, forget it. I shouldn__ be asking this. But,_ again her voice lowered, __s he tattooed everywhere?__arah knew it was wrong to talk about him like this, but her inner schoolgirl took over and she nodded, eager to share details. __e__ beautiful _ like a stained glass window. And he__ really good with his _ mouth._ She raised an eyebrow, giving Grace a significant look.Her friend gasped and giggled. __ut isn__ it weird? Touching him?___kin is skin, Grace,_ Sarah chided. __he tattoos are only on the surface, you know.He__ a man._ A sexy, vulnerable, intense, attractive, responsible, sweet, gentle and loving man.

With each opportunity before me, God presented me with a choice. I could accept His offerings, His wisdom, His grace. Or I could choose to hold onto the pain, the anger and the resentment a little longer.

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 in neglecting tillage because the secret energy of God alone can create a harvest. No one is hindered in the ordinary pursuits of life by the fact that unless the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.

Grace has a face. It is Jesus Christ.

The ones whose light will remain with me long after they have burnt out are the ones that had grace. Because it's rare that the gift comes with grace. Some of the biggest arseholes I've ever met are the most gifted. Because it's "pretty girl" syndrome. Being gifted is like being born beautiful. You don't have to work a day in a year in your life for it. You were born with it. In one sense, it's like blue blood, money, gift, or beauty. They are the things that should make you the most humble, because they are not the things you have earned. They are the things you were given. Yet, it is my experience that they male people the most spoiled. And the people who work the hardest, and who have overcome the most obstacles on their life, who have reason to beat their breasts are the most humble, sometimes. I can't get over that. it's bewildering to me. To make it through success and still have manners, to still have curiosity, intellectual curiosity, to still have some grace, to keep your dignity, that is really... rare.