Grace Quotes

“In the Chinese language the word for righteousness is a combination of two characters, the figure of a lamb and a person. The lamb is on top, covering the person. Whenever God looks down at you, this is what he sees: the perfect Lamb of God covering you.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart—poisoned as it is with pride and pain—and replacing it with his own. Rather than tell you to change, he creates the change. Do you clean up so he can accept you? No, he accepts you and begins cleaning you up. His dream isn’t just to get you into heaven but to get heaven into you.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Sweet Jesus, you did not forget me when I forgot you. Thank you for singing your song of grace into my life over and over again. Give me the wisdom to see your work in all circumstances. In your precious name I pray, amen.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“To live as God’s child is to know, at this very instant, that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more. All your efforts to win his affection are unnecessary. All your fears of losing his affection are needless. You can no more make him want you than you can convince him to abandon you. The adoption is irreversible. You have a place at his table.”
― Thomas Nelson Publishers, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Sustaining grace promises not the absence of struggle but the presence of God.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“If you do not transform your pain, you will surely transmit it. —RICHARD ROHR”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“This is an unpopular yet essential truth. All ships that land at the shore of grace weigh anchor from the port of sin. We must start where God starts. We won’t appreciate what grace does until we understand who we are. We are rebels. We are Barabbas. Like him, we deserve to die. Four prison walls, thickened with fear, hurt, and hate, surround us. We are incarcerated by our past, our low-road choices, and our high-minded pride. We have been found guilty. We sit on the floor of the dusty cell, awaiting the final moment. Our executioner’s footsteps echo against stone walls. Head between knees, we don’t look up as he opens the door; we don’t lift our eyes as he begins to speak. We know what he is going to say. “Time to pay for your sins.” But we hear something else. “You’re free to go. They took Jesus instead of you.” The door swings open, the guard barks, “Get out,” and we find ourselves in the light of the morning sun, shackles gone, crimes pardoned, wondering, What just happened? Grace happened.”
― Thomas Nelson Publishers, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Confession is a radical reliance on grace. A proclamation of our trust in God’s goodness. “What I did was bad,” we acknowledge, “but your grace is greater than my sin, so I confess it.” If our understanding of grace is small, our confession will be small: reluctant, hesitant, hedged with excuses and qualifications, full of fear of punishment. But great grace creates an honest confession.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Plunge a sponge into Lake Erie. Did you absorb every drop? Take a deep breath. Did you suck the oxygen out of the atmosphere? Pluck a pine needle from a tree in Yosemite. Did you deplete the forest of foliage? Watch an ocean wave crash against the beach. Will there never be another one? Of course there will. No sooner will one wave crash into the sand than another appears. Then another, then another. This is a picture of God’s sufficient grace. Grace is simply another word for God’s tumbling, rumbling reservoir of strength and protection. It comes at us not occasionally or miserly but constantly and aggressively, wave upon wave. We’ve barely regained our balance from one breaker, and then, bam, here comes another.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“To live as God’s child is to know, at this very instant, that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more. All your efforts to win his affection are unnecessary. All your fears of losing his affection are needless. You can no more make him want you than you can convince him to abandon you. The adoption is irreversible. You have a place at his table.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“God answers the mess of life with one word: grace.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“And I give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or perish throughout the ages. [To all eternity they shall never by any means be destroyed.] And no one is able to snatch them out of My hand.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“[God] dispenses his goodness not with an eyedropper but a fire hydrant. Your heart is a Dixie cup, and his grace is the Mediterranean Sea. You simply can’t contain it all. So let it bubble over. Spill out. Pour forth. ‘Freely you have received, freely give’ (Matt. 10:8 NIV).”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then enables us to yield to its transforming power. Grace matters because Jesus matters, and it works because he does.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“To be saved by grace is to be saved by him—not by an idea, doctrine, creed, or church membership, but by Jesus himself, who will sweep into heaven anyone who so much as gives him the nod.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“PRECIOUS AS IT IS TO PROCLAIM,          “CHRIST DIED FOR THE WORLD,”          EVEN SWEETER IT IS TO WHISPER,          “CHRIST DIED FOR ME.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Heavenly Father, loosen my grip on the things of this world. Lead me in the dance of spontaneous, cheerful giving, and let that generosity remind me always of your grace toward me, which I in no way deserve. In your Son’s name I pray, amen.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“God’s guilt brings enough regret to change us. Satan’s guilt, on the other hand, brings enough regret to enslave us.”
― Thomas Nelson Publishers, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“We will be confident when we stand before the Lord, even if our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. —1 JOHN 3:19-20 0 NLT”
― Thomas Nelson Publishers, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Grace is everything Jesus. Grace lives because he does, works because he works, and matters because he matters. He placed a term limit on sin and danced a victory jig in a graveyard. To be saved by grace is to be saved by him—not by an idea, doctrine, creed, or church membership, but by Jesus himself, who will sweep into heaven anyone who so much as gives him the nod.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Grace comes after you. It rewires you. From insecure to God secure. From regret-riddled to better-because-of-it. From afraid-to-die to ready-to-fly. Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.1”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Darei a vocês um coração novo… Removerei o coração de pedra que têm e o trocarei por um coração que vive segundo a vontade de Deus, não segundo a própria vontade. — Ezequiel 36:26 MSG”
― Max Lucado, Graça: Mais do que merecemos, maior do que imaginamos

“seguramente lo transmitiremos.
—RICHARD ROHR”
― Max Lucado, Gracia: Más que lo merecido, mucho más que lo imaginado

“Trust God’s hold on you more than your hold on God. His faithfulness does not depend on yours. His performance is not predicated on yours. His love is not contingent on your own. Your candle may flicker, but it will not expire.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (Ps. 139:23–24).”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart—poisoned as it is with pride and pain—and replacing it with his own. Rather than tell you to change, he creates the change. Do you clean up so he can accept you? No, he accepts you and begins cleaning you up.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“And when God hears your heart, does he not hear the still-beating heart of his Son?”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“We would be wrong to think this change happens overnight. But we would be equally wrong to assume change never happens at all.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“God’s grace has a drenching about it. A wildness about it. A white-water, riptide, turn-you-upside-downness about it. Grace comes after you. It rewires you. From insecure to God secure. From regret-riddled to better-because-of-it. From afraid-to-die to ready-to-fly. Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.1”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Grace is a God who stoops.”
― Max Lucado, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine