Receiving Grace Quotes

#1. I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.

Etgar Keret

#2. I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.

Ryan Seacrest

#3. All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows ...

Wendell Berry

#4. Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

Eugene H. Peterson

#5. It's not about what we do, or what we feel, it's about what He did and what He felt. It's about what Christ has done for us.

Mike Donehey

#6. If you want something, get it. If you like someone, show it. If your sad, cry. Happy, smile. no point in hiding things and pretending to be one thing when your really another.

Marilyn Grey

#7. The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

Tony Campolo

#8. God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

Richard J. Foster

#9. The marquis de Carabas looked up at him. His eyes were very white in the moonlight. And he whispered, What's it like being dead? It's very cold, my friend. Very dark, and very cold.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Spanking girls and being a girl receiving a spanking captures the feeling of falling from grace, that beyond the pleasure enhanced by the pain is a sense that you are being just a little bit wicked.

Chloe Thurlow

#11. You may have done some really nifty things in life, but if you think they're going to get you into Heaven, forget it. The only way any of us are going to get in is by receiving God's gift of grace, which is available to every person.

Rick Warren

#12. The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

William Ames

#13. Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.

Jacqueline Winspear

#14. The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

Timothy Keller

#15. I need to be broken apart and put back into a different shape by that merging of things human and divine, which is really screwing up and receiving grace and love and forgiveness rather than receiving what I really deserve. I

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#16. Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master.

Brent L. Top

#17. Seeing it was James McQuillen who'd spoken so casually to Zane, sent a jolt of electricity down my spine; I readied my torpedoes. Target, the betraying bastard's manipulating mind. This Judas wouldn't have a chance to hang himself. I'd beat him to it.

Carol Van Atta

#18. Some nights, you want to be George Jetson, and other nights, you want to be sexy.

Brad Goreski

#19. I had one more thing to add to my expanding world.

Jamaica Kincaid

#20. Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

Peg Bracken

#21. Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon

#22. The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.

Jeremy Grantham

#23. There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

Joyce Meyer

#24. There is in true grace an infinite circle: a man by thirsting receives, and receiving thirsts for more.

Thomas Shepard

#25. Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.

Grace Napolitano

#26. 28Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we lmay serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.

Anonymous

#27. When we are able to use our brain functions integratively, we can use our brain and the power of consciousness for a purpose that is big enough to benefit all.

Ilchi Lee