Enabling Quote by John Piper

Grace is power, not just pardon.

— John Piper

“Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.”

— Robert C. Shannon

To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.

— Cornelius Plantinga

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

— Philip Yancey

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

— Max Lucado

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

— Frederick Buechner

“Under law, the best of us is justly charged guilty on account of sin, but under grace, the worst of us is justly charged…

— Paul Ellis

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he…

— Jostein Gaarder

“They thought they were employing an economy-saving doctrine of situational leniency, but they somehow failed to understand that by coming up with a calculus…

— Matt Taibbi

“When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such…

— Joseph Stalin

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

— Freda Adler

What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally…

— Honore de Balzac