Bible Quote by Thomas Erskine Download Open image “In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.” — Thomas Erskine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bible Ethics Grace Gratitude New New testament Philosophy Religion Testament
Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics. — G. C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
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 in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they… — Anonymous Copy Share
Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you're not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives. — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
Gratitude based on a faith that everything that happens or doesn’t happen in your life is for your own best interests. That we live… — William Holden Copy Share Image
All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment,… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Let him who plays the monarch be a king; Who plays the rogue, be perfect in his part — Thomas Erskine Copy Share Image
The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; For Nature, that to them gave gout, To us gave… — Thomas Erskine Copy Share Image
Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure. — Thomas Erskine Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose, Sergeant,’ Anthony Payne replied. ‘That is from The Merchant of Venice, but it holds great truth.” — Michael Arnold Copy Share Image
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell… — Lee Greenwood Copy Share Image
“Scripture also teaches that human beings are morally responsible creatures” — Robert A. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire… — Stephen Taylor Copy Share
O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture… — Walsham How Copy Share Image
Every plant which my heavenly father has not planted with be uprooted — Jesus Christ Copy Share Image
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share