Quotes About Prevenient

#1. God's grace comes first. His love is prevenient to our response;his forgiveness awakens our repentance.

James Runcie

#2. Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.

John Calvin

#3. This distinctness of things argues not a spontaneous generation but a prevenient Cause; and from that Cause we can apprehend

Athanasius Of Alexandria

#4. Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#5. According to Wesley, God's grace is like a seed planted in human beings. It is the power that leads them to seek God (prevenient grace); it is the power that saves them from sin (justifying grace); and it is the power that leads them to perfection (sanctifying grace).

H. Newton Malony

#6. I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.

John Legend

#7. I, Astaroth, Crown Prince of Hell, am in love with you, Layla Shaw. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. A hudred decades from now, I will still be in love with you, and it will be as fierce today as it will be a decade later.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#9. The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Agnes Repplier

#10. Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

Agnes Repplier

#11. The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

William Burton Pope

#12. If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

Michael Jordan

#13. For all my life, I had stored my love in a a place down inside me that had no outlet. I contained it there. Kept it to myself. Afraid to let it out. Thought if I did, it'd seep out and I'd be left with none. I didn't have much to start with.

Charles Martin

#14. Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Vera Farmiga