| Discipleship simply means the life which springs from grace. |
Clifford Williams |
| Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. |
Eugene O'Neill |
| Ah, what a thing is man devoid of grace. |
George Herbert |
| The world can do almost anything as well as or better than the church. You need not be a Christian to build houses, feed the hungry, or heal the sick. There is only one thing the world cannot do. It cannot offer grace. |
Gordon Macdonald |
| Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. |
Martin Luther King |
| The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy. |
Max Lucado |
| The economy of undeserved grace has primacy over the economy of moral deserts. |
Miroslav Volf |
| God dispenses gifts, not wages. None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirements for a perfect life. |
Philip Yancey |
| God took a great risk by announcing forgiveness in advance, and the scandal of grace involves a transfer of that risk to us. |
Philip Yancey |
| Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people. |
Philip Yancey |
| Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. |
Philip Yancey |
| Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost. |
Philip Yancey |
| Grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generation. Grace alone melts ungrace. |
Philip Yancey |
| Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God loves us more. And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love. |
Philip Yancey |
| I know that I came face-to-face with God's love at my worst, not my best, and that amazing grace saved a wretch like me. |
Philip Yancey |
| In the realm of grace the word "deserve" does not even apply. |
Philip Yancey |
| Justice has a good and righteous and rational kind of power. The power of grace is different: unworldly, transforming, supernatural. |
Philip Yancey |
| Like grace, forgiveness has about it the maddening quality of being undeserved, unmerited, unfair. |
Philip Yancey |
| Only by living in the streams of God's grace will I find the strength to respond with grace towards others. |
Philip Yancey |
| Real change, for the alcoholic as well as for the Christian, must begin with admitting the need for grace. Denial blocks grace. |
Philip Yancey |
| Repentance, not proper behaviour or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue. |
Philip Yancey |
| The law did not encourage obedience, rather it magnified disobedience. Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure. |
Philip Yancey |
| The proof of spiritual maturity is not how "pure" you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace. |
Philip Yancey |
| Unearned gifts and unexpected pleasures bring the most joy. |
Philip Yancey |
| If the world could have been saved by good bookkeeping, it would have been saved by Moses, not Jesus. |
Robert Farrar Capon |
Life is like a game of chess, in which there are an infinite number of complex moves possible. The choice is open, but the move contains within itself all future moves. One is free to choose, but what follows is the result of one's choice. From the consequences of one's action there is never any escape.