Grace Quote by John Owen Download Open image “Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.” — John Owen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grace Heart Nature of Beauty Please Stones
It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who attempts to… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“The motions of Grace, the hardness of heart; external circumstances.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of sin, the first intimation of our need of God, is the work of preparing, prevening grace, which draws us gradually toward wishing to please God. Grace is working quietly at the point of our desiring, bringing… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The holiness of the gospel softens the hardness of the heart.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Grace is not something for which I must look in my heart. It is in the heart of God. — C. F. W. Walther Copy Share Image
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The shovel of trouble digs the reservoir of encouragement deeper and makes more room for… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever. — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Our belief of the Scriptures to be the word of God, or a divine revelation, and our understanding of the mind and will of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
How can we possibly believe the promises concerning Heaven, immortality, and glory, when we do not believe the promises concerning our present life? And… — John Owen Copy Share Image
It must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their thoughts of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“And those who pretend to be teachers of others, and yet despise his teaching assistance, will one day find that they undertook a work… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in… — John Owen Copy Share Image
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit. — John Owen Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness,… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlightened one], one can become… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image