Quotes about Grace

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

we are not received by Jesus into a school of ethics but into a kingdom of redemption.

Redemption reconstructs the relation of man to God.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

As well as walking erect and disguising his tiredness, he also tried to avoid other symptoms of old age: meanness, mistrust, ill temper, resentment, and bad habits such as no longer shaving every day, repeating the same stories over and over, talking about himself, his ailments, or money.