Quotes about Grace

Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's love. The great message that we have to carry, as ministers of God's Word and followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim that love as the true source of all human life.

You can only seek God when you have already found God. The desire for God's unconditional love is the fruit of having been touched by that love.

If God is compassionate, then certainly those who love God should be compassionate as well.

The elder brother compares himself with the younger one and becomes jealous. But the father loves them both so much that it didn't even occur to him to delay the party in order to prevent the elder son from feeling rejected. I am convinced that many of my emotional problems would melt as snow in the sun if I could let the truth of God's motherly non-comparing love permeate my heart.

I can only be healed from above, from where God reaches down. What is impossible for me is possible for God. "With God, everything is possible."

By inviting God into our difficulties we ground life—even its sad moments—in joy and hope. When we stop grasping our lives we can finally be given more than we could ever grab for ourselves. And we learn the way to a deeper love for others.

The Father's love does not force itself on the beloved.

Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.

God looks at his people as children of a family who are happy that those who have done only a little bit are as much loved as those who accomplish much.

What I do know with unwavering certainty is the heart of the father. It is a heart of limitless mercy.