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Related SUNDAY ADELAJA If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not g... CHRISTOPHER LOVE R. P. C. HANSON LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Your power is in your story and all the wisdom it has brought you. ANGELA MAYAH SOLSTICE C. JOYBELL C. SUNDAY ADELAJA MARTIN LUTHER LAILAH GIFTY AKITA CONFUCIUS In the Old Testament, we find the idea that God enters into the sufferings of His people. "In all th... B. H. STREETER The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave th... T. B. JOSHUA LAILAH GIFTY AKITA KARL BARTH JULIAN OF NORWICH Righteousness and love, law and grace, life and death, as well as time and eternity all intersect at... STEVEN COOK CONFUCIUS BRENNAN MANNING JOHN PIPER FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY R.C. SPROUL LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The most wonderful thing of all about the cross is that it reveals the love of God to us. It is not ... D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES The saving grace of God makes me perfect. The saving of myself makes me in-perfect. I choose to be p... SUSIE L HILL LAILAH GIFTY AKITA MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. JOYCE MEYER God's grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a s... NADIA BOLZ-WEBER Despite the differences in detail and in emphasis in Wesley's exposition of the two sacraments, ther... JOHN R. PARRIS ADONIRAM JUDSON RICK PERRY HENRY VAN DYKE JOHN PIPER Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so! FRANCIS ASBURY Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of... BIBLE Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human lab... T. B. JOSHUA CHARLES SPURGEON GEORGE MACDONALD Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not t... TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN JOHN OWEN Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God. HAROLD WARNER MIKE YACONELLI HENRY VAN DYKE But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, / Even when we were dead in... BIBLE ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We will not be measured by the world’s standards anymore. We will be measured by the plumb line of... TERESA SCHULTZ SUNDAY ADELAJA WILLIAM TEMPLE We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God. SUZANNE WOODS FISHER Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin f... TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and specia... JOSEMARíA ESCRIVá BILLY GRAHAM R.C. SPROUL DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Jumbled appeared the messages, NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dre... TIM LAHAYE To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dre... TIM LAHAYE FREDERICK BUECHNER FREDERICK BUECHNER J. C. RYLE ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When God Himself bestows His Glance of Grace, He blends us into Himself. SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB GILBERT K. CHESTERTON I wanted to prove that I could, and by the grace of God I did, PAT DAY CHARLES SPURGEON BLAISE PASCAL BRYCE COURTENAY JERRY BRIDGES Jerusalem is the house of the one God, the capital of two peoples, the temple of three religions and... SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ... ERIN O'RIORDAN Religion means to know God and to love Him. A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPāDA If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks af... SARAH DUNANT RAMAKRISHNA CALVIN COOLIDGE God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him ... IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA DOUGLAS ADAMS PETER KREEFT MOTHER ANGELICA FRANCIS CHAN LAILAH GIFTY AKITA C.S. LEWIS A.W. TOZER The cross is the place where heaven meets earth and grace erupts. The cross is the place where Jesus... MATT FARLOW AMIT RAY If there is a heaven and hell, then I wonder, are the people in heaven asking god to forgive and sto... JASON BOURKE NICK VUJICIC ... Genesis 18 calls fathers to direct their children to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is r... TEDD TRIPP "Hark the herald angels sing,
Glory to the new-born king."
Peace on earth, and mercy mild,
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GRACE means God Redeems And Christ Empowers! 
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Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject t... 
Heaven means to be one with God. 
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Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius, 
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Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to de... 
To love someone means to see him as God intended him. 
God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an i... 
Our sacred duty is to love, motivate and pray for one another, so that, we all received grace of God... 
Glory to God in highest heaven,Who unto man His Son hath given;While angels sing with tender mirth,A... 
God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by g... 
Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve... 
We realize that by the grace of God, we could be the ones that have this extra need. 
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While... 
There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He cas... 
The one principle of hell is – “I am my own 
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The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's gra... 
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... 
We Christians are the one who undermine the grace and power of God. 
In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He was ... 
The only thing I could say for sure is that hell means separation from God. We are separated from hi... 
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again and again, the gift which must be as... 
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are bec... 
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are b... 
Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 To be prayerless is to be with... 
Religion means life. Religion means true service in love to man and God. Religion means what ought t... 
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. 
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lot of Christians seem to think that the grace of God and the vigorous pursuit of holiness are antit... 
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God's Final Message to His Creation:
We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to ... 
At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God. 
Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to lig... 
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About this grass now. I didn't finish telling. It grows so close it's guaranteed to kill off clover ... 
What God want me to be, I shall be by His grace. 
For the rest of mankind to be with Christ means death, but for Christians it is a means of grace. Ba... 
You can never sanctify to God that with which you long to satisfy yourself. 
Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that exc... 
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take... 
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eyes. In every gesture, dignity and love. 
Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requirin... 
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income in... 
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I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter ligh... 
I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet. 
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctr... 
Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of ... 