Quotes about Grace

keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—

John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven Spirits before His throne,

But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.

“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure.” For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us.

One of the main reasons I remain a Christian is because I love knowing that my sins are not only forgiven, but also forgotten!

I sometimes wonder how people like Bart, who no longer believe in the grace of God, handle their guilt. Perhaps, as Sigmund Freud suggested, they repress it by burying the memories of past sins deep within themselves. But Freud went on to explain that such repression doesn't really work in the long run, and that guilt always emerges from the subconscious, sometimes as phobias and sometimes as neurotic behavior.

Jesus didn't wait until we got better to die for us. He died when we were in our most unlovely state. The person who doesn't deserve love actually needs love more, not less. If you know someone unworthy of love, that's great! You now have a chance to emulate Christ, because the essence of His love is unconditional.