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“The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“I am not interested in having the world revolve around me; that's too boring of an idea. I would rather revolve around the world and try to leave my fingerprints, everywhere. My fingerprints mingled in with all the other fingerprints and all the laughter and all the beautiful things like gratitude, grace, faithfulness and flowers.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Jesus never concealed the fact that his religion included a demand as well as an offer. Indeed, the demand was as total as the offer was free. If he offered men his salvation, he also demanded their submission. He gave no encouragement whatever to thoughtless applicants for discipleship. He brought no pressure to bear on any inquirer. He sent irresponsible enthusiasts away empty. Luke tells of three men who either volunteered, or were invited, to follow Jesus; but no one passed the Lord’s test. The rich young ruler, too, moral, earnest and attractive, who wanted eternal life on his own terms, went away sorrowful, with his riches intact but with neither life nor Christ as his possession…The Christian landscape is strewn with the wreckage of derelict, half built towers—the ruins of those who began to build and were unable to finish. For thousands of people still ignore Christ’s warning and undertake to follow him without first pausing to reflect on the cost of doing so. The result is the great scandal of Christendom today, so called “nominal Christianity.â€� In countries to which Christian civilization has spread, large numbers of people have covered themselves with a decent, but thin, veneer of Christianity. They have allowed themselves to become somewhat involved, enough to be respectable but not enough to be uncomfortable. Their religion is a great, soft cushion. It protects them from the hard unpleasantness of life, while changing its place and shape to suit their convenience. No wonder the cynics speak of hypocrites in the church and dismiss religion as escapism…The message of Jesus was very different. He never lowered his standards or modified his conditions to make his call more readily acceptable. He asked his first disciples, and he has asked every disciple since, to give him their thoughtful and total commitment. Nothing less than this will do”
― John R.W. Stott, Basic Christianity

“Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least be one redeeming card of our very own. Lord, if it is not too much to ask, send us to bed with a few shreds of self-respect upon which we can congratulate ourselves. But whatever you do, do not preach grace. Give us something to do, anything; but spare us the indignity of this indiscriminate acceptance.”
― Robert Farrar Capon, Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

“The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands, accept whatever he prescribes, and do whatever He bids.We feel that nothing can be wrongly ordered while He is the director of our affairs; for He loves us too well to let us perish, or suffer a single needless pang”
― Charles Spurgeon

“Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude

“I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“You will not find Jesus in heaven, reclining on a cloud. He isn’t in church on Sunday morning, sitting in the pews. He isn’t locked away in the Vatican or held hostage by a denominational seminary. Rather, Jesus is sitting in the Emergency Room, an uninsured, undocumented immigrant needing healing. He is behind bars, so far from his parole date he can’t think that far into the future. He is homeless, evicted from his apartment, waiting in line at the shelter for a bed and a cup of soup. He is the poor child living in government housing with lice in his hair, the stripes of abuse on his body and a growl in his stomach. He is an old forgotten woman in a roach infested apartment who no one thinks of anymore. He is a refugee in Sudan, living in squalor. He is the abused and molested child who falsely feels responsible for the evil that is perpetrated against her. He is the young woman who hates herself for the decisions she has made, decisions that have imperiled her life, but did the best she could, torn between impossible choices. Jesus is anyone without power, ability or the means to help themselves, and he beckons us to come to him; not on a do-gooding crusade, but in solidarity and embrace.”
― Ronnie McBrayer, How Far Is Heaven?: Rediscovering the Kingdom of God in the Here and Now

“Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Pull himself together? This was a man who looked permanently cemented together.”
― Maya Banks, Echoes at Dawn

“Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination.”
― Jaeda DeWalt

“When “doctrinal integrityâ€� (a term usually defined by those using it) trumps kindness and grace, faith has wandered out of bounds. Anything claiming to be truth that does not lead to compassion for our neighbors cannot rightfully be called the truth.”
― Ronnie McBrayer, Leaving Religion, Following Jesus

“We in the revivalist tradition have viewed grace only in terms of privatized, individualized spirituality. Give people enough Jesus to save their souls, move them to an emotional decision, help them get their hearts right and acquire a more responsible morality, and that will be enough. But that is not enough. It is not even the beginning of enough. God was concerned about those living in dire suffering long before Bono, Angelina Jolie, or George Clooney turned into social activists.”
― Ronnie McBrayer, Leaving Religion, Following Jesus

“I don't care what it looks, I don't care what it feels like, I believe God.”
― Michelle Cook-Hall, This Journey Is a Process

“Law does, "because God said so!"; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so.”
― D.R. Silva

“What was it you told me, Jesus?â€� she asked him softly. “Do you remember? Love is love is love. Pain is pain is pain. Knowledge is knowledge. It doesn’t matter what shape or form it takes, what matters is how you use it, what you do with it, and if you can accept it with some measure of grace. If you can, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world. If you can’t...”
― Shannon Noelle Long, Second Coming

“People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.”
― D.R. Silva

“Grace (the Gospel) is under attack today simply because it reveals the GOODNESS of God. Nothing reveals the GOODNESS of God more than grace.”
― John Paul Warren

“The “Gospelâ€� is not a sermon title or the name of a book in the Bible. The Gospel is the person of Jesus Christ and it is the power of God to bring people to salvation. Romans 1:16”
― John Paul Warren

“I am relentlessly determine to be occupied with Jesus Christ and His Glorious Gospel and nothing else.”
― John Paul Warren

“His grace lifts us in spite of us...it moves our lives forward on the conveyor belt of promise, even as we cling to our nagging doubts and unbelief.”
― Carl Prude Jr., Anchored in Light: Understanding and Overcoming the Five Deadliest Threats to Your Faith

“When we look at Abraham, Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael, we see that God's grace can survive our three-ring-circuses of compromise, rationalization and weak faith.”
― Carl Prude Jr., Anchored in Light: Understanding and Overcoming the Five Deadliest Threats to Your Faith

“How can a God who said, “Love your enemiesâ€� spend so much time killing His own?”
― D.R. Silva

“We preach grace, but we don’t always practice it. We talk about God’s mercy, but we don’t always want the people who need it most to know it or get in on it. We say we are in the redemption business, but the door to that redemption is often locked by us from the inside. We say, “Come in! All are welcome!â€� but “allâ€� is often marked with an asterisk. How, I ask, can the world change â€� how can heaven come to earth â€� if we stingily protest against God for his grace to others, grace we have freely received ourselves? How can we pray “thy kingdom come,â€� and be resentful toward God and those he allows to enter the kingdom in his way and his timing?”
― Ronnie McBrayer, How Far Is Heaven?: Rediscovering the Kingdom of God in the Here and Now

“I often feel the pressure, from my peers and others, to come out and “take a standâ€� on a moral or social issue. Typically, I refuse to do so, or at least I refuse to do so in a way that will please my critics. On so many of the hard and divisive issues of our times, I don’t close my eyes. I do stand for something: I stand for love. For if Jesus came, not to condemn the world, but to redeem it, how can we who bear the Name respond any differently? Yes, what I believe about all these moral and social issues matters, without a doubt. But these beliefs mean nothing, if my first and consuming conviction is not love for those who are different and believe differently than me. We have a choice: We can choose to show how “rightâ€� we are, or we can choose to love. Sometimes, it is impossible to do both at the same time.”
― Ronnie McBrayer, The Jesus Tribe: Following Christ in the Land of the Empire

“We have taught this generation how to "market" the Gospel but we have neglected to encourage them to "preach" the Gospel.”
― John Paul warren

“We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.”
― John Paul Warren

“He's God....and his grace is a part of him working relentlessly on our behalf...never leaving, never abandoning, never stopping.”
― Carl Prude Jr., Anchored in Light: Understanding and Overcoming the Five Deadliest Threats to Your Faith