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• Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.

  John Stott

  Care, Rescue, Stoops

  John Stott (2013). “Christ in Conflict: Lessons from Jesus and His Controversies”, p.97, InterVarsity Press

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• Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

  LeCrae

  Believe, People, Needs

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• Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

  Karl Barth

  Beautiful, Laughter, Joy

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• Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.53, Bantam

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• Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

  William Hazlitt

  Spiritual, Expression, Soul

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.219, Delphi Classics

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• Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jewels, Gutters

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.521, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Space, Empty, Has Beens

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• If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!

  Bill Johnson

  Empowering, Doe, Sin

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• Doesn’t it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn’t it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don’t feel very precious?

  Bill Johnson

  Children, Believe, Humility

  Bill Johnson (2005). “When Heaven Invades Earth”, p.149, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response

  Bill Johnson

  Atmosphere, Response, Reasonable

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• There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

  Thomas Merton

  Self Esteem, People, Shining

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.155, Image

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• Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Self, Unbroken, Proud

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better

  Caroline Myss

  Positivity, Moments, Something Better

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2013

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  And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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• Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.

  C. I. Scofield

  Kindness, Men, Justice

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• Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Benefits, Pleasure, Undeserving

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1975). “The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life”

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• In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves.

  J. I. Packer

  Moving, Mean, Men

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.291, InterVarsity Press

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• All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Catholic, Human Nature, Painful

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.307, Macmillan

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• The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Brother, Bridges, Support

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• Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

  Saint Augustine

  Real, Accomplishment, Holiness

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• "Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

  Saint Augustine

  Order, Done, May

  "A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter".

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• When despair for the world grows in me...
  I come into the presence of still water.
  And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light.
  For a time I rest in the grace of the world,
  and am free.

  Wendell Berry

  Stars, Light, Water

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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• To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ease, Awakening, Resistance

  Twitter post from Nov 01, 2012

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• Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Hero, Sick

  "Early theological works".

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