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"Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his thoughts agreeable as well as useful. Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard."
"Joy is the grace we say to God."
"Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body."
"The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it."
"The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect."
"Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name."
"I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again."
"It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding."
"Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him."
"The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life."
"[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good."
"So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace."
"Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly."
"On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace."
"We know we are falling from grace, millennium."
"Conformity is an imitation of grace."
"When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!"
"I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace."
"The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place."