Grace Driven Quotes

#1. Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place. You may mow it down for a season of time only to see it sprout up again.

Matt Chandler

#2. I pray for my sister. That she be allowed to discover grace and find peace without drugs. That her hair grows. That some of her pain be driven from her and given to me because I think I can handle it. I pray for her kids. That they find they have a chance to grow up knowing they were loved.

Terry McMillan

#3. Sure, ideas that spread, win, but ideas that don't get spoken always fail.

Seth Godin

#4. O Lord, I commit my plans into thy mighty hands, guide me along straight path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. And for once, I want you to snap out of that hidebound practicality that sucks all the joy out of life. Were you an Indian, your spirit name would be Dream Killer.

Elizabeth Camden

#6. A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics.

Nina Easton

#7. May you know, love, obey and serve the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding.

Calvin Miller

#9. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?

Joseph Conrad

#10. God's great love in Christ - Christians are compelled to willing, joyful, urgent, faith-driven, grace-saturated, God-glorifying work on behalf of the poor.

David Platt

#11. I'm just lucky to have great parents. My sister's an actress. My brother's a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a ... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

Grace Gummer

#12. You have the grace for happy life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I work out for an hour and a half every day, alternating between cardio and weights. I also do yoga for an hour every alternate day and swim every other day.

Tena Desae

#14. Lord guide us along the best pathways.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. Imagine the righteous dismay when Ann arrived. She got slapped with some family name - didn't even get the extra e to ornament it a bit.

Gillian Flynn

#17. Can you tell the story of redemption in one sentence? Sin has driven us out of the garden, but grace drives us right into the Father's arms.

Paul David Tripp

#18. The man was an unpredictable, sexy storm cloud. I never knew if he was going to make pretty shapes or rain all over my parade.

Molly Harper

#19. I want to be special to someone again. To know I'm cared for, and not out of obligation.

Alexa Riley

#20. This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.

Alfred Noyes

#21. The greatest grace is the sacred life of a fulfilled dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

Indu Muralidharan

#23. He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

Hadewijch

#24. The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.

Susan Orlean

#25. I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Ben Folds

#26. They washed their hands in one basin. Clare touched hers under the water. "Which are my fingers and which are yours?" he said, looking up. "They are very much mixed." "They are all yours," said she, very prettily,

Thomas Hardy

#27. Traditional businesses can say, 'We're going to sell widgets to people, and it will make X amount of profit.' But new business models are hard.

Kevin Systrom

#28. I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started.

Tim Kaine

#29. When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

Chloe Grace Moretz