2,516 Quotes About Grace

A shared table is the supreme expression of hospitality in every culture on earth. When your worn-out kitchen table hosts good people and good conversation, when it provides a safe place to break bread and share wine, your house becomes a sanctuary, holy as a cathedral. I've left a friend's table as sanctified and renewed as any church service. If you have a porch, then you have an altar to gather around.

Grace is shockingly personal. As Henri Nouwen points out, 'God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.

Grace upon grace upon grace, until we have made our way home.

A lady laced with grace . . . Such, is impossible to despise.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more... And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less... Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

Grace is giving yourself a free pass and realizing that it isn't free at all.

Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous.

A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.