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Grace Quotes by J I Packer
- 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…
- It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity…
- We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The…
- God's ways do not change... Still he shows his freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel while others do…
- To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And…
- This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
- The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
- Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and…
- Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this…
- God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength…
- Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in…
- Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that…
- I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace…
More Grace Quotes
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. — Saint Augustine
- I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry… — Diane Ackerman
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors,… — Teresa of Avila
- Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. — Drew Barrymore
- Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. — Karl Barth
- God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. — Saul Bellow
- My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him. — Rachel Bilson