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"Along with such abundance of GRACE comes the gift of righteousness. Again GRACE and righteousness combine to allow believers to experience the enthroned life in Jesus Christ. In God's dealings with man today, GRACE is king. GRACE reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord" »Rollin Wilson
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"The age of GRACE began in mid-Acts, after the conversion of the Apostle Paul. It is through his letters alone that we learn about the dispensation of GRACE, about Israel being set aside, with Jew and Gentile being saved into the Body of Christ. It was Paul who taught 'all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses' (Acts 2121). It was also Paul who proclaimed the forgiveness of sins 'to all who would believe' in Christ, adding that 'ye could not be justified by the law of Moses' (Acts 1338-39). The measuring rod of GRACE tells us that the age of GRACE began with Paul, then continued through those who were saved and subsequently carried on His God-given doctrines of GRACE." »John Fredericksen
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"I guess GRACE doesn't have to be logical. If it did, it wouldn't be GRACE." »Max Lucado
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"We were lost and dead in sin. We were by nature objects of God's wrath. But God Loved us That Love caused Him to do something about our situation. God is rich in mercy, so He made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions. God acted on His Love for us and saved us by His GRACE GRACE is the result of the actions of His Love. The remarkable thing about His GRACE is that He didn't ask us to do anything but believe Him. God didn't ask us to perform some great deed. He didn't demand obedience from us before He would save us. God made us alive with Christ 'even when we were dead in transgressions and sins.' God is showing the universe 'the incomparable riches of his GRACE, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.' (Ephesians 27) God was Kind to us 'in' Christ because He Loved us." »Mark McGee
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"The GRACE of God means something like Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of GRACE can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too." »Frederick Buechner
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"GRACE is but glory begun, and glory is but GRACE perfected." »Johathan Edwards
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"Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of GRACE, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal GRACE, force, fascination" »Mark Twain
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"Through His redemptive work we are 'justified from all things' (Acts 1338,39) and now rejoice in 'the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His GRACE' (Eph. 17), a position in Christ at God's right hand (Eph. 24-6), 'all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ' (Eph. 13) and 'the hope of the glory of God' (Rom. 52), to be fully realized when we are 'caught up together...to meet the Lord in the air' (1 Thess. 417). Then will be fulfilled the desire of God's loving heart 'That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His GRACE in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus' (Eph. 27)." »Cornelius Stam
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"As members of the Body of Christ, each of us have been endowed with a special measure of GRACE to use in His service. Paul develops this theme in Romans where he states 'For as we have many members in one Body, and all members have not the same office So we, being many, are one Body in Christ, and ever one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the GRACE that is given to us, whether...ministry, let us wait on our ministering or he that teacheth, on teaching Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity he that ruleth, with diligence he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness." »Paul Sadler
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"Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power and deity that belong to God alone (Rom. 120) while a deeper and richer glory is unfolded in the wondrous cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. There God is fully revealed, not only in terms of His dominion and deity, but in His holiness, love, and GRACE. At the Cross I learn what creation could never tell me--who God is and what He is to me, a guilty sinner. God is love therefore, He is both light and life. A Savior-God What marvelous GRACE and glory." »William Hallman
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"As a sinner I could not please God, I could not neutralize or pay for my own sin. But when God justified me by His GRACE He went on record declaring me righteous. He didn't wave a magic wand and declare me to be innocent. His holiness would not permit it. A basis for declaring me righteous was needed. The ground upon which my justification is built is the substitutionary death of His son, Jesus Christ. The shedding of blood demonstrates the righteousness of God 'that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus' (Rom. 326 NKJV). What a marvelous plan Man's plan of salvation by good works is offensive to God and to anyone who has been saved by God's GRACE." »Larry Riemersma
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"Most of us have been taught about the need to appropriate by faith what is already ours through GRACE. We all desire to have more joy in our Christian life. The keys to experiencing joy are available to all of us. We need to understand the gospel of the GRACE of God as revealed to the Apostle Paul. Then as we put Paul's instructions into practice, we will come to know God experientially. This will cause us to know Him better which will cause us to want to obey more, and on and on it goes. Then as we learn and obey God and become focused on spiritual things instead of earthly things, we will become thankful for everything that God has provided for us in Christ. Knowledge, obedience, and thankfulness will then lead to abundant joy in our everyday life In the words of the old hymn Trust and obey, For there's no other way, To be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey." »David Havard
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"There but for the GRACE of God go I." »John Bradford
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"Courage is GRACE under pressure." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Laughter is the closest thing to the GRACE of God." »Karl Barth
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"When Paul went to the Jew first, it was not because it seemed that Israel might yet accept Christ and His kingdom, but simply because God would leave Israel no excuse for rejecting Messiah. Paul confirmed Peter's message, and mightily contended with the Jews everywhere that 'Jesus is the Christ.' And miracles accompanied this confirmation testimony--greater miracles, indeed, than Peter himself had wrought. But, unlike Peter, Paul never offered the kingdom to Israel. His ministry among them was not to turn the nation to Christ, but to save any from among them who might believe, receiving salvation by GRACE, and to leave the rest without excuse. Thus God was concluding Israel in unbelief and, even at that early date, mightily using Paul to proclaim GRACE to the Gentiles." »Cornelius Stam
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"The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all GRACE of youth." »Robinson Jeffers
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"Always accept good fortune with GRACE and humility." »Mark L. Mika
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"That is the saving GRACE of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you." »A. Whitney Brown
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"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of GRACE and beauty." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest GRACE." »John Dryden
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"Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without GRACE." »Saint Augustine
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"When GRACE is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age." »Victor Hugo
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"So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of GRACE - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence." »Homer
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"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no GRACE in a benefit that sticks to the fingers." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of GRACE...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole." »William Franklin Billy Graham
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"Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a GRACE to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season." »Robert Frost
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"Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such GRACE. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you." »Tennessee Williams
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"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the GRACE of tragedy." »Steven Weinberg
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"It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving GRACE, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously." »Stephen Fry
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