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    Anne Lamott
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    Romans 5:15-17, Romans 11:6, 1 Corinthians 1:3-4, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Galatians 2:21, Ephesians 1:6-7, Ephesians 2:5-8
    I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

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    Richard Lovelace
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    Romans 5:1, Romans 8:1, Galatians 2:16, Titus 3:5, 1 John 4:15, Isaiah 61:10, Hebrews 10:14
    Much that we have interpreted as a defect of sanctification in church people is really an outgrowth of their loss of bearing with respect to justification. Christians who are no longer sure that God l...

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    John Stott
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    John 8:1-11, Luke 15:11-32, Luke 10:25-37, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 2:1-20, Titus 3:4-5, Romans 5:6-8
    Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

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    Dwight L. Moody
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    Mark 10:46-52, Romans 10:13, Psalm 145:18, Luke 23:39-43, 1 Peter 2:24, Romans 5:8, Luke 18:9-14
    If you are ready to partake of grace you have not to atone for your sins--you have merely to accept of the atonement. All that you want to do is to cry, "God have mercy upon me," and you wil...

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    Glen Scrivener
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    John 1:16-17, Romans 5:8, Ephesians 2:8-9, Acts 2:38, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Titus 3:5-6, Galatians 4:6
    The piling on of grace upon grace is incredible. God had given us his Son. We killed him. In response God says, “I want to forgive you and offer another ‘family member,’ so to speak.” It was a case of...

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    Alia Joy
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    Luke 19:1-10, Ephesians 2:4-5, Mark 5:25-34, Psalm 34:18, Romans 5:6
    There is a helplessness in poverty that precedes the move of God in our lives because we understand an aspect of grace that so many miss: we do nothing to earn it. When we understand this, all becomes...

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    Lesslie Newbigin
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    John 13:1-17, Ephesians 2:8-9, Galatians 2:21, Hebrews 9:14, Mark 10:45, Romans 5:8
    To accept this [Jesus' self-humiliation in washing the disciples' feet] is to be converted. And nothing can be added to this. If you imagine that you can add something to what is given in the ...

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    Phillip Yancey
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    John 21:15-19, 2 Samuel 12:1-13, John 8:1-11, Luke 15:11-32, Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 5:20-21, Luke 15:7
    Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

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    Peter Wehner
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    Luke 23:39-43, Acts 9:1-9, Luke 15:11-32, John 8:1-11, Romans 5:20-21
    The greatest and most powerful Christian distinctive is not the exercise of power; it is the offer of grace.

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    Nadia Bolz-Weber
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    Romans 5:15-17, Romans 11:6, 1 Corinthians 1:3-4, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Galatians 2:21, Ephesians 1:6-7, Ephesians 2:5-8
    God’s grace is not defined by our ability to be good. God’s grace is defined by God’s desire to be with us.

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    Donald Grey Barnhouse
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    John 8:1-11, Psalm 113:5-8, Romans 5:8, Philippians 2:6-8, John 13:14-15, Luke 15:11-32
    Love that reaches up is adoration. Love that reaches out is affection. But love that stoops is grace.

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Romans 5:8, John 21:15-19, Jonah 3:4, Matthew 18:21-35, 2 Samuel 12:1-7, Romans 14:10-13, James 4:11-12
    Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

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    Karl Barth
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    Acts 7:54-60, Psalm 23:4, Acts 2:1-4, John 14:26, Luke 15:11-32, Romans 5:8
    In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man's Lord who is before him, above him, after him, and thence also with him in history, the locus of man...

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    Richard J. Foster
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    Psalm 51:, John 3:16-17, Romans 5:8, 1 John 4:10, 2 Peter 3:9, Micah 7:18, 2 Corinthians 5:19-21
    At the heart of God is the desire to give and to forgive… Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God’s great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that b...

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    Charles F. Stanley
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    Psalm 51:17, Hebrews 4:16, Ephesians 1:7, Matthew 11:28-30, Romans 5:8, Psalm 103:12, Isaiah 1:18
    Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God,...

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    Stanley Kunitz
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    Romans 5:3-4, Lamentations 3:31-32, Psalm 73:26, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 61:3
    How shall my heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?

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    N. T. Wright
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    1 Peter 1:18-19, Romans 8:30, Colossians 1:13-14, Romans 5:1, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Ephesians 1:7
    Dealing with sin, saving humans from it, giving them grace, forgiveness, justification, glorification-all this was the purpose of the single covenant from the beginning, now fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

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    Source Unknown
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    Colossians 2:13, Acts 4:12, Romans 10:9-10, 1 John 1:9, Titus 3:5, Romans 5:8
    Good people don’t go to heaven, forgiven people do.

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    Charles Wesley
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    Luke 2:13-14, Isaiah 9:6-7, Ephesians 2:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, Romans 5:10-11
    Hark the herald angels sing, "Glory to the new-born king." Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!"

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    Timothy Keller
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    2 Corinthians 5:17, Luke 19:1-10, John 4:1-26, Titus 3:4-5, 1 John 4:9-10, Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 5:8
    He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

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    Elisabeth Elliot
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    John 15:18-20, 1 Peter 2:21, Romans 5:3-4, Mark 15:16-24, 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, James 1:2-4
    If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road - abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To tha...

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Psalm 25:5, Isaiah 40:31, Lamentations 3:25-26, James 1:2-4, Matthew 11:15, Romans 5:3-5, Isaiah 30:18
    Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

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    Gayle Somers
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    Isaiah 55:8-9, Ephesians 3:20-21, Romans 5:8, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 103:10-12
    All the cards in the deck of revelation about God’s mercy and kindness are stacked in favor of the unthinkable.

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    Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
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    John 3:16, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Psalm 103:10-12, Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 5:8, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 3:23-24
    I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope.

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    Philip Melanchthon
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    Romans 5:1-2, Titus 3:5, Romans 3:27-31, 1 Peter 1:6-9, Hebrews 11:6, Romans 4:3-5, James 2:14-26
    Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ…. This trust in the goodwill or mercy of God first calms our hearts and then inflames us to give thanks to God for his mercy so ...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Luke 18:13-14, Romans 5:8, Mark 2:17, 1 John 1:8-10, Isaiah 53:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 3:23
    A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world H...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 5:8, Psalm 103:10-12, Mark 11:25, Luke 6:37, 1 John 1:9
    To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

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    Martin Luther
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    Luke 5:31-32, 1 Timothy 1:15, 1 John 1:9, Romans 5:6-8, Mark 2:17, Isaiah 1:18, Micah 7:18-19
    It is quite enough that you have sinned. Now let go of it. Don’t let your despondency lead to an even greater offence. The Lord says, ‘I do not wish the death of the sinner, but rather that he repent ...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Psalm 103:11, Psalm 36:5, Isaiah 55:9, Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 5:20
    God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

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    Author
    Philip Melanchthon
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    Romans 5:1-2, Titus 3:5, Romans 3:27-31, 1 Peter 1:6-9, Hebrews 11:6, Romans 4:3-5
    A living faith is that which pours itself out in works.
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