We are here! It’s Good Friday and while it was a gloomy day 2000 plus years ago, this day also signified grace! The grace that was shown on a cross was for all of mankind to receive such a wonderful gift and in turn, show and extend grace because we have received such a wonderful gift.
I don’t know about you but it seems as though we are in short supply of grace and we sure do need it! In every area of our lives, society, world, we need grace!
This year of a pandemic or virus or whatever else we want to call it has taken a lot of prisoners so to speak.
We have become prisoners to frustration, hopelessness, fear, not knowing what is true or false, when is this going to end and the list can go on…..
So as we march along into the spring, we need to, among other things up the grace content. With so many people seemingly in short supply of showing grace to others and for so many of us, we show little grace to ourselves at times, we need it desperately.
So this Forward Friday is all about grace because we were shown ultimate grace on Easter weekend on an old rugged cross and Easter Sunday signified that we can trust that grace freely poured out to us!
When I Think About Grace, These 2 Thoughts Come To Mind.
Grace generally suggests a calm and pleasing way of being, or a gracious, kind, courteous and thoughtful way of living or conducting our lives.
Grace is also "the love and mercy given to us by God because God wishes us to have it, not necessarily because of anything we have done to earn it". It is not a created substance of any kind. ..
I’ve put together a collection of Grace quotes for the many different moments of life. May they encourage us not only this Easter Weekend but help us as we walk into the future no matter how the road twists and turns.
Grace Quotes That Will Elevate Your Perspective
“Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.” – Benjamin B. Warfield
“For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.” – Saint Augustine of Hippo
“Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.” – Arthur W. Pink
“Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.” – Max Lucado
“Courage is grace under pressure.” Ernest Hemingway
“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.” – Jacob Rees-Mogg
“Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There’s no way to earn it or deserve it or bring about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks.” – Frederick Buechner
“Grace needs to be the air we breathe, the atmosphere we live in, whether in church or in the home.” – Allen Snapp
“Grace is the very opposite of merit… Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.” – Harry Ironside
Grace Quotes For The Challenging Days
“Grace, like water flows to the lowest part.” – Philip Yancey
“Because of the favor of God, we can have peace in the midst of chaos.” – Crystal McDowell
“What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.” – Rick Warren
“Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.” – Brennan Manning
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” – Aristotle
Grace Quotes On Showing It To Others
“If I’m not showing grace… have I forgotten the grace I’ve been shown.” – John F. Macarthur Jr.
“The motive and purpose behind the law … is to make it clear exactly how much you must do and no more. Grace refuses to put a ceiling or a floor on concern for the neighbor.” – Joseph Fletcher
“I give grace because I so desperately need it.” – Lysa Terkeurst
“Showing grace to others is about showing kindness even when they don’t deserve it.” – Dawn Klinge
“Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.” – Dallas Willard
Grace Quotes To Nourish Your Soul
“Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; ‘Tis grace has brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home.” – John Newton
“Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.” – John Chrystostom
“Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning; then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.” – Thomas Adams
Grace Quotes On How It Impacts Us
“Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.” – C.H. Spurgeon
“Grace releases and affirms. It doesn’t smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn’t destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn’t jealous or suspicious.” – Charles Swindoll
“When grace moves in… guilt moves out.” – Max Lucado
“Abounding missing of the mark is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.” – A.W. Tozer
“I am redeemed/liberated/freed/rescued and saved by grace.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“Grace is the love that gives, that loves the unlovely and the unlovable.” – Oswald C. Hoffmann
“The higher a man is in grace. The lower he will be in his own esteem.” – Charles Spurgeon
Grace Quotes About God’s Grace
“A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next 6 months, nor can he inhale sufficient air into his lungs with one breath to sustain life for a week to come. We are permitted to draw upon God’s store of grace from day to day as we need it.” – Dwight L. Moody
“You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.” – Charles Portis
“Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.” – Jerry Bridges
“The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presences.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, “Be good.” Jesus’ stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, “Help!”” – Philip Yancey
May these “Grace” thoughts help you not only during this Easter weekend but in the days, weeks, months to come!
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