Quotes about Grace

Grace has its own power, even in international politics.

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it

Grace is unfair, which is one of the hardest things about it.

Grace, however, is not about fairness.

Only forgiveness frees us from the injustice of others.

A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses.

when we appeal to God's grace and compassion the fearsome God soon disappears.

Legalism lowers, rather than raises, God's standards. Loving your neighbor as yourself, caring for the poor, bringing about justice, forgiving enemies—none of these reduces to a set of rules. Indeed, any list of rules narrows the breadth of what God wants done in the world. It moves the emphasis away from dispensing God's grace to sinners toward a pointless competition with pseudo-saints. It makes faith petty and irrelevant, not something that urgently matters.

There is a simple cure for people who doubt God's love and question God's grace: to turn to the Bible and examine the kind of people God loves.

I yearn for a grace-abounding church that rewards rather than punishes honesty, and that, in Jesus' words, exists for the sinners and not the righteous, the sick and not the healthy.

Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.