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title: "1 Common Grace Quotes By Joseph Sittler"
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> [ Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" \[i.e., available to all\]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sittler/augustine-said-that-we-were-all-born-into-the-world-of-common-grace-i/)

[Joseph Sittler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sittler/)

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## More by Joseph Sittler

> [I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sittler/i-do-not-believe-that-our-relationship-to-the-earth-is-liable-to/)

[Joseph Sittler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sittler/)

> [On the first page of the Bible there is an instance of how literalism is but an invitation to transcend the image to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sittler/on-the-first-page-of-the-bible-there-is-an-instance-of-how-literalism/)

[Joseph Sittler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sittler/)

> [I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sittler/i-have-never-been-able-to-entertain-a-god-idea-which-was-not/)

[Joseph Sittler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sittler/)

> [God is not identified with the world, for he made it; but God is not separate from His world, either. For He made it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sittler/god-is-not-identified-with-the-world-for-he-made-it-but-god-is-not/)

[Joseph Sittler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sittler/)

> [ Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" \[i.e., available to all\]. Before one is baptized, or even if… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sittler/augustine-said-that-we-were-all-born-into-the-world-of-common-grace-i/)

[Joseph Sittler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sittler/)

> [A believer is an evangelist primarily by who he is and how he lives-not by what he says. What he says is important; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sittler/a-believer-is-an-evangelist-primarily-by-who-he-is-and-how-he-lives/)

[Joseph Sittler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sittler/)

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