WORRY QUENCHES GRACE

BEING KNOWN

FORGIVENESS

C.S. Lewis: “Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”

A DIVINE MYSTERY

"There is no mystery in heaven or earth so great as this - a suffering deity, and almighty Savior nailed to the Cross."

- Samuel M. Zwemer

JUSTIFICATION THROUGH FAITH

It is faith alone that justifies but faith that justifies can never be alone. – John Calvin

GRACE IS ...

“the opposite of grace is not law …God’s

Law is actually an extension of grace.

The opposite Of grace is simply the absence of grace

To say you deserve grace is a contradiction in terms…

the minute you think you deserve, the it you think you deserve is no longer grace. It is something you have earned.

But grace can’t be earned.” - Andy Stanley

SAVING THE MIND

The problem is not only to win souls but to save minds. If you win the whole world and lose the mind of the world, you will soon discover you have not won the world. Indeed, it may turn out you have actually lost the world.
                                                                                 - Charles Malik

REBELS AND PRODIGALS

‎"I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry." -Philip Yancey

ASH WEDNESDAY

"The emotional result of Ash Wednesday observance isn't depression or gloom, but gratitude and new energy for living. When we realize how desperately we need God, and how God is faithful far beyond our desperation, we can't help but offering our lives to him in fresh gratitude. And when we recognize that life doesn't go on forever, then we find new passion to delight in the gifts of each and every day, and to take none of them for granted."      - Mark D. Roberts

Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/markdroberts/pages/series/ash-wednesday-practice-and-meaning.html#ixzz1G5T8c2J6

INTOXICATED WITH SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. -Abraham Lincoln