God's Grace And Favour Quotes

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You start to live when you commit your life to cause higher than yourself. You must learn to depend on divine power for the fulfillment of a higher calling.
Lailah GiftyAkita
The grace of writing is upon me. I love writing. I write daily.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I have a spiritual journey on earth. Lord anoint and empower me to accomplish my great task on earth.
Lailah Gifty Akita (The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life)
I am thankful to the Lord for my redemption. I was once lost, now I am saved by grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
Every New Year brings its sacred blessings.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
Peace of mind, joy at heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
May your life overflow with hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
God’s grace is strong enough to hold me steady through every difficulty.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
There is grace for every soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
God Almighty, I don’t want to ask for more. But to say more thanks.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
I know my rightful place as a child of God; I am blessed and highly favoured. I am protected and delivered from every evil. I am redeem and set free from all bondages in Jesus Name.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
A healthy happy life is a sacred bliss!
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
So thankful, forever blessed.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
For Paul, the centre of the Christian faith was that we can never earn or deserve the favour of God, nor do we need to. The whole matter is one of grace, and all that we can do is to accept in wondering love and gratitude and trust what God has done for us.
William Barclay (The Letter to the Romans (The New Daily Study Bible))
If you seek the presence of God, you will see the glory of God:
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding. There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour long the travel.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You can do great and mighty things by the power of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
Seek grace and guidance from God.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
Birthday, Birthday, Birthday! Celebrate your day of birth, no matter the circumstances of your birth. Be thankful and joyful for the gift of life on this divine day.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
We are God's chosen people. We are God's treasured possession. Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as God's children.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
God prepared us for the task ahead of time.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
Jehovah-Jireh is a Great provider. Even in times of famine, we have enough to eat.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
They that know their God shall not be disappointed. They will stand the test of time.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
May every soul find the privilege of repentance and grace of forgiveness.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
May God continue to grant you more grace for your work.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
The Lord will never forsake you. His presence is always with you everywhere you may go.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
Mercy is God's favour that holds back from us what we deserve. Grace is God's favour that gives us what we do not deserve.
Rolfe Barnard (Sermons of Evangelist Rolfe Barnard: Vol 3)
The breath of life is divine grace of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
God's timing is magnificent.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The Lord is our mighty shield. The Lord is our greet strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
May God brighten your path.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
Where God leads, He provides.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
When you look closely to the path you have travel on, you will realise that God was always with you, directing every step you took.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
The blessings of the Lord is our greatest wealth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
May the goodness of God's face forever shine on our path.
Laiah Gifty Akita
I have being saved by the grace of God. I am a child of God. The Lord's great favour and mighty power is upon me.
Lailah Gifty Akita
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck; write them upon the tablet of thine heart: 4 So shalt thou find grace and good favour in the sight of God and man.
Russell M. Stendal (The Holy Scriptures, Jubilee Bible 2000)
Every child destiny is predetermined by the Creator.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
May God illuminate your path with great favours
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
God will generously give you wisdom, if thy will ask.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
You are saved by grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
All that I am is by the grace of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
Every day is divine. If you seek the sacred treasure you will find it.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
To every difficulty, God’s grace abounds.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
The love of God knows no end. Lord may your boundless and unfailing love surround us.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
Every endured challenge is a new strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
What timeless resources, God provide to serve every need?
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
God turned the adversity into a blessing. What a divine intervention?
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
When you believe, incredible things happen. You set divine forces into motion.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
I will wait for God’s promises to be fulfilled in my life.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
We are trying to find something to feel the void. It is only God who can fill the void.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
I have experience near-death many times but a divine power saved me.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
May you find grace and strength to achieve all the good things your faith prompts you to do.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
The word of God is full of assurance.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
May all people from every nation, find power of God’s grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
At sacred-time, I will give birth to divine-twins in Jesus Name. Amen.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
In the light of love, I find the glory of God’s grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
Grace abounds for everyday life.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
We all have that divine moment, when our lives are transformed by the knowledge of the truth.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
By the Grace of God, we are highly favoured. His Grace is bigger than what our minds, can ever comprehend.
Gift Gugu Mona (Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration)
Use the powerful tool of thought and develop your mindset to believing and knowing you can change anything to your favour; yes, you have God`s Word so fashion your thought according to God`s Word.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Whenever the divine favour chooses someone to receive a special grace, or to accept a lofty vocation, God adorns the person chosen with all the gifts of the Spirit needed to fulfil the task at hand.
St. Bernardine of Siena
Silvester, being satisfied, returned home; but in the evening of the same day he reflected on his avarice, and on the holiness and the fervour of St Francis. That night also he saw St Francis in a vision, and it seemed to him as if a golden cross came out of his mouth, which reached up to heaven and extended to the extreme east and west. After this vision he gave all he possessed to the poor, for the love of God, and made himself a Brother Minor. He became so holy, and was favoured with such special graces, that he spake with the Lord as a friend speaks with a friend, of which St Francis was often a witness, as we shall see further on.
Francis of Assisi (The Little Flowers Of Saint Francis Of Assisi)
I had never deserved to be forgiven in the first place when I aas converted. I could do nothing to merit God's favour, His grace, His love. If all I had ever known was unmerited and undeserved grace, how could I then forfeit that which I never earned?... Was I too proud, in some strange, inverted way to humble myself to accept an unmerited forgiveness? I know that it was all of grace, yet my inner being wanted the right to do something to merit it. I was trying to work out my own salvation, to earn God's forgiveness, to prove the sincerity of my repentance...At last I knew that it was true. It was not based on my feeling or on my emotions. It was not dependent on my faith or my obedience. In no way could I merit or deserve it. He loved me. He knew me through and through, better than I knew myself, and yet still, He loved me. Christ died on Calvary to tell me that. Christ lives in Heaven, an unceasing intercessor on my behalf to make that love real to me in my experience.
Helen Roseveare (Living Sacrifice: Willing to be Whittled as an Arrow)
The righteousness of God in His election means, then, that as a righteous Judge God perceives and estimates as such the lost cause of the creature, and that in spite of its opposition He gives sentence in its favour, fashioning for it His own righteousness.
Karl Barth (Church Dogmatics: II.2 The Doctrine of the Word of God §§ 34–35 (Study Edition #11))
If you have ever seen a severed hand or foot, or a head cut off and lying some way away from the rest of the body- analogous is what someone does to himself, as far as he can, when he will not accept his lot and severs himself from society or does some unsocial act. Suppose you have made yourself an outcast from the unity of nature- you were born a part of it, but now you have cut yourself off. Yet here lies the paradox- that it is open to you to rejoin that unity. No other part has this privilege from god, to come together again once it has been separated and cut away. Just consider the grace of god's favour to man. He has put it in a man's power not to be broken off from the Whole in the first place, and also, if he has broken off, to return and grow back again, resuming his role as a member. p77
Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)
When I have reached the limits of my ability, when my expectations have been exhausted, when my eyes can no longer see beyond the cloud, then, GRACE shows up. Grace pushes me beyond my ability, raises my expectations beyond the envelope, and sharpens my eyes to see farther. Grace is a favour beyond what I merit, a help I couldn't have asked for, a strength I did not possess. Where would I be without God's Grace? I don't even want to think about it.
Abiodun Fijabi
I had never deserved to be forgiven in the first place when I Was converted. I could do nothing to merit God's favour, His grace, His love. If all I had ever known was unmerited and undeserved grace, how could I then forfeit that which I never earned?... Was I too proud, in some strange, inverted way to humble myself to accept an unmerited forgiveness? I know that it was all of grace, yet my inner being wanted to right to do something to merit it. I was trying to work out my own salvation, to earn God's forgiveness, to prove the sincerity of my repentance...At last I knew that it was true. It was not based on my feeling or on my emotions. It was no dependent on my faith or my obedience. In no way could I merit or deserve it. He loved me. He knew me through and through, better than I knew myself, and yet still, He loved me. Christ died on Calvary to tell me that. Christ lives in Heaven, an unceasing intercessor on my behalf to make that love real to me in my experience.
Helen Roseveare (Living Sacrifice: Willing to be Whittled as an Arrow)
Let us be exhorted to exalt God alone, and ascribe to him all the glory of redemption. Let us endeavour to obtain, and increase in, a sensibleness of our great dependence, to have our eye on him alone, to mortify a self-dependent and self-righteous disposition. Man is naturally exceeding prone to exalt himself, and depend on his own power of goodness; as though from himself he must expect happiness. He is prone to have respect to enjoyments alien from God and his Spirit, as those in which happiness is to be found. But this doctrine should teach us to exalt God alone: as by trust and reliance, so by praise. Let him that glorieth, glory in the Lord. Hath any man hope that he is converted, and sanctified, and that his mind is endowed with that true excellency and spiritual beauty? That his sins are forgiven, and he received into God’s favour, and exalted to the honour and blessedness of being his child, and an heir of eternal life? Let him give God all the glory; who alone makes him to differ from the worst of men in this world, or the most miserable of the damned in hell. Hath any man much comfort and strong hope of eternal life, let not his hope lift him up, but to dispose him the more to abase himself, to reflect on his own exceeding unworthiness of such a favour, and to exalt God alone. Is any man eminent in holiness, and abundant in good works, let him take nothing of the glory of it to himself, but ascribe it to him whose ‘workmanship we are, created in Christ Jesus unto good works.
Jonathan Edwards (God Glorified in Man's Dependence)
Admonished by his ear, and straight was known The Arch-Angel Uriel, one of the seven Who in God’s presence, nearest to his throne, Stand ready at command, and are his eyes That run through all the Heavens, or down to the Earth Bear his swift errands over moist and dry, O’er sea and land: him Satan thus accosts. “Uriel, for thou of those seven Spirits that stand In sight of God’s high throne, gloriously bright, The first art wont his great authentic will Interpreter through highest Heaven to bring, Where all his sons thy embassy attend; And here art likeliest by supreme decree Like honour to obtain, and as his eye To visit oft this new creation round; Unspeakable desire to see, and know All these his wonderous works, but chiefly Man, His chief delight and favour, him for whom All these his works so wonderous he ordained, Hath brought me from the quires of Cherubim Alone thus wandering. Brightest Seraph, tell In which of all these shining orbs hath Man His fixed seat, or fixed seat hath none, But all these shining orbs his choice to dwell; That I may find him, and with secret gaze Or open admiration him behold, On whom the great Creator hath bestowed Worlds, and on whom hath all these graces poured; That both in him and all things, as is meet, The universal Maker we may praise; Who justly hath driven out his rebel foes To deepest Hell, and, to repair that loss, Created this new happy race of Men To serve him better: Wise are all his ways.” So spake the false dissembler unperceived; For neither Man nor Angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone,
John Milton (Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Collins Classics))
—I have been understood. At the opening of the Bible there is the whole psychology of the priest.—The priest knows of only one great danger: that is science—the sound comprehension of cause and effect. But science flourishes, on the whole, only under favourable conditions—a man must have time, he must have an overflowing intellect, in order to “know.”... “Therefore, man must be made unhappy,”—this has been, in all ages, the logic of the priest.—It is easy to see just what, by this logic, was the first thing to come into the world:—“sin.”... The concept of guilt and punishment, the whole “moral order of the world,” was set up against science—against the deliverance of man from priests.... Man must not look outward; he must look inward. He must not look at things shrewdly and cautiously, to learn about them; he must not look at all; he must suffer.... And he must suffer so much that he is always in need of the priest.—Away with physicians! What is needed is a Saviour.—The concept of guilt and punishment, including the doctrines of “grace,” of “salvation,” of “forgiveness”—lies through and through, and absolutely without psychological reality—were devised to destroy man’s sense of causality: they are an attack upon the concept of cause and effect!—And not an attack with the fist, with the knife, with honesty in hate and love! On the contrary, one inspired by the most cowardly, the most crafty, the most ignoble of instincts! An attack of priests! An attack of parasites! The vampirism of pale, subterranean leeches!... When the natural consequences of an act are no longer “natural,” but are regarded as produced by the ghostly creations of superstition—by “God,” by “spirits,” by “souls”—and reckoned as merely “moral” consequences, as rewards, as punishments, as hints, as lessons, then the whole ground-work of knowledge is destroyed —then the greatest of crimes against humanity has been perpetrated.—I repeat that sin, man’s self-desecration par excellence, was invented in order to make science, culture, and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible; the priest rules through the invention of sin.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Non-rational creatures do not look before or after, but live in the animal eternity of a perpetual present; instinct is their animal grace and constant inspiration; and they are never tempted to live otherwise than in accord with their own animal dharma, or immanent law. Thanks to his reasoning powers and to the instrument of reason, language, man (in his merely human condition) lives nostalgically, apprehensively and hopefully in the past and future as well as in the present; has no instincts to tell him what to do; must rely on personal cleverness, rather than on inspiration from the divine Nature of Things; finds himself in a condition of chronic civil war between passion and prudence and, on a higher level of awareness and ethical sensibility, between egotism and dawning spirituality. But this "wearisome condition of humanity" is the indispensable prerequisite of enlightenment and deliverance. Man must live in time in order to be able to advance into eternity, no longer on the animal, but on the spiritual level; he must be conscious of himself as a separate ego in order to be able consciously to transcend separate selfhood; he must do battle with the lower self in older that he may become identified with that higher Self within him, which is akin to the divine Not-Self; and finally he must make use of his cleverness in order to pass beyond cleverness to the intellectual vision of Truth, the immediate, unitive knowledge of the divine Ground. Reason and its works "are not and cannot be a proximate means of union with God." The proximate means is "intellect," in the scholastic sense of the word, or spirit. In the last analysis the use and purpose of reason is to create the internal and external conditions favourable to its own transfiguration by and into spirit. It is the lamp by which it finds the way to go beyond itself. We see, then, that as a means to a proximate means to an End, discursive reasoning is of enormous value. But if, in our pride and madness, we treat it as a proximate means to the divine End (as so many religious people have done and still do), or if, denying the existence of an eternal End, we regard it as at once the means to Progress and its ever-receding goal in time, cleverness becomes the enemy, a source of spiritual blindness, moral evil and social disaster. At no period in history has cleverness been so highly valued or, in certain directions, so widely and efficiently trained as at the present time. And at no time have intellectual vision and spirituality been less esteemed, or the End to which they are proximate means less widely and less earnestly sought for. Because technology advances, we fancy that we are making corresponding progress all along the line; because we have considerable power over inanimate nature, we are convinced that we are the self-sufficient masters of our fate and captains of our souls; and because cleverness has given us technology and power, we believe, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, that we have only to go on being yet cleverer in a yet more systematic way to achieve social order, international peace and personal happiness.
Aldous Huxley (The Perennial Philosophy)
I ask’d the Lord, that I might grow In faith, and love, and ev’ry grace, Might more of his salvation know, And seek more earnestly his face. I hop’d that in some favour’d hour, At once he’d answer my request: And by his love’s constraining pow’r, Subdue my sins, and give me rest. Instead of this he made me feel The hidden evils of my heart; And let the angry pow’rs of hell Assault my soul in ev’ry part. Yea more, with his own hand he seem’d Intent to aggravate my woe; Cross’d all the fair designs I schem’d, Blasted my gourds, and laid me low. Lord, why is this, I trembling cry’d, Wilt thou pursue thy worm to death? “’Tis in this way,” the Lord reply’d, “I answer pray’r for grace and faith. “These inward trials I employ, “From self and pride to set thee free; “And break thy schemes of earthly joy, “That thou mayst seek thy all in me.
Timothy J. Keller (Walking with God through Pain and Suffering)
Now, let us see what he expects at the sinner’s hand.  Not to purchase this his favour  with a ransom out of his own purse!  No, he empties his Son’s veins to pay that.  But he requires us, (a) To lay down the weapons of our rebellion—for he cannot in honour treat with us while we have that sword in our hand with which we have fought against him.  (b) To accept our pardon and peace at the hands of free grace; at tributing the glory of it to the mere mercy of God as the moving, and Christ’s satisfactory obedience as the meritorious cause.  (c) That we shall swear fealty and allegiance to him for the future.  How reasonable these are, those that now reject them shall confess with infinite shame and horror for their folly, when Christ shall pack them to hell by his irrevocable sentence.
William Gurnall (The Christian in Complete Armour - The Ultimate Book on Spiritual Warfare)
Valmiki’s say of saying grace was, however, very much his own. The grace that the Brahmins said for Rama in his palace before joining him in his meals was long, sonorous, and thanked a battery of gods by name for their favours. Valmiki said: “Gods in your heaven grant that se eat this meal remembering that we may die this very night and never taste such good things again. Sweet gods, fatten the pumpkins. I’ve done all I know and just look at them. So be it.
Aubrey Menen (The Ramayana as Told by Aubrey Menen)
Lord God, great is your love. Lord God, great is your mercies. Lord God, great is your grace. Lord God, great is your peace. Lord God, great is your goodness. Lord God, great is your favour.
Lailah Gifty Akita
So it is a grace and a gift from God to excel in your work. It is another gift from God to reap the benefits of excelling in your work. Though they usually go together (but not always), the two must not be confused, and the order of the two must never be reversed. Doing this will enable us to keep our priorities right where they are supposed to be: "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold" (Prov. 22:1).
Douglas Wilson (Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World)
God is merciful to all who repent and turn to Him.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
God’s grace does not require a condition to abound. However to obtain the promises of his blessings, you have to strive for it, fight for it, work hard for it and insist upon it.
Israelmore Ayivor (Dream big!: See your bigger picture!)
Having faith does not mean you should be idle and expecting manna to fall from above. You must get up and do something!
Israelmore Ayivor (Become a Better You)
The grace of God's mercy is the moment of favour to be saved from the body of sin to eternal life in the spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
grace is getting what we don’t deserve (favour) and mercy is not getting what we do deserve (justice).
R.T. Kendall (Total Forgiveness: Achieving God's Greatest Challenge)
commented, If the Father did not spare his own Son but delivered him up to the agony and shame of Calvary, how could he possibly fail to bring to fruition the end contemplated in such sacrifice. The greatest gift of the Father, the most precious donation given to us, was not things. It was not calling, nor justification, nor even glorification. It is not even the security with which the apostle concludes his peroration (vs. 39). These are favours dispensed in the fulfillment of God’s gracious design. But the unspeakable and incomparable gift is the giving up of his own Son. So great is that gift, so marvellous are its implications, so far-reaching its consequences that all graces of lesser proportion are certain of free bestowment.…Since he is the supreme expression and embodiment of free gift and since his being given over by the Father is the supreme demonstration of the Father’s love, every other
James R. White (The God Who Justifies)
The grace,faith,love and power of God will uplift you to greater heights.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Something wonderful happened to me. I was transported into the Seventh Heaven. All the gods sat there in assembly. By special grace I was granted the favour of a wish. Said Mercury: ‘Will you have Youth, or Beauty, or Power, or Longevity, or the most beautiful girl, or any of the other delights we have in our treasure trove? Choose, but you may only choose one thing.’ For a moment I was at a loss, and then I addressed the gods in this fashion: ‘My most honoured contemporaries, I choose one thing, and that is always to have laughter on my side.’ In reply not one of the gods said a single word. Instead they all began to laugh. From this I gathered that my wish had been granted. I learned, too, that the gods had style: it would, after all, have been inappropriate had they answered, in all solemnity: Your wish is hereby granted. (Either/Or, 1843)
Robert Ferguson (Life Lessons From Kierkegaard)
We should also point out the significance of the fact that Jesus' ministry differed so markedly in character from that expected of the Coming One by the Baptist. Why should Jesus so fully ignore the prophetic expectation of one so obviously inspired (cf. Mark 11.30) ? Why did Jesus not see his ministry in terms of judgment? How came he to be so selective in his use of OT prophecy? The most obvious answer is that he had found God in his own experience to be a God of grace more than of judgment. The power which he experienced working through his ministry was a power to heal not to destroy. The message given him to proclaim was the message of God's favour not of God's vengeance. His own experience of God, of divine power and inspiration, made clear to him what parts of OT prophecy were applicable to and descriptive of his ministry, and what were not.
James D.G. Dunn (Jesus and the Spirit: A Study of the Religious and Charismatic Experience of Jesus and the First Christians as Reflected in the New Testament)
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious." 1 Peter 2:3 If:--then, this is not a matter to be taken for granted concerning every one of the human race. "If:"--then there is a possibility and a probability that some may not have tasted that the Lord is gracious. "If:"--then this is not a general but a special mercy; and it is needful to enquire whether we know the grace of God by inward experience. There is no spiritual favour which may not be a matter for heart-searching. But while this should be a matter of earnest and prayerful inquiry, no one ought to be content whilst there is any such thing as an "if" about his having tasted that the Lord is gracious. A jealous and holy distrust of self may give rise to the question even in the believer's heart, but the continuance of such a doubt would be an evil indeed. We must not rest without a desperate struggle to clasp the Saviour in the arms of faith, and say, "I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him." Do not rest, O believer, till thou hast a full assurance of thine interest in Jesus. Let nothing satisfy thee till, by the infallible witness of the Holy Spirit bearing witness with thy spirit, thou art certified that thou art a child of God. Oh, trifle not here; let no "perhaps" and "peradventure" and "if" and "maybe" satisfy thy soul. Build on eternal verities, and verily build upon them. Get the sure mercies of David, and surely get them. Let thine anchor be cast into that which is within the veil, and see to it that thy soul be linked to the anchor by a cable that will not break. Advance beyond these dreary "ifs;" abide no more in the wilderness of doubts and fears; cross the Jordan of distrust, and enter the Canaan of peace, where the Canaanite still lingers, but where the land ceaseth not to flow with milk and honey.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (Christian Classics: Six books by Charles Spurgeon in a single collection, with active table of contents)
Whereupon then can I hope, or wherein may I trust, save only in the great mercy of God, and the hope of heavenly grace? For whether good men are with me, godly brethren or faithful friends, whether holy books or beautiful discourses, whether sweet hymns and songs, all these help but little, and have but little savour when I am deserted by God's favour and left to mine own poverty. There is no better remedy, then, than patience and denial of self, and an abiding in the will of God.
Thomas à Kempis (Christian Devotionals - The Imitation of Christ, Confessions, Jesus The Christ, The Book of Ruth and How To Become Like Christ (Five Unabridged Classics with Annotations, Images and Audio Links))
God will fulfill your wishes.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him." Colossians 2:9, 10 All the attributes of Christ, as God and man, are at our disposal. All the fulness of the Godhead, whatever that marvellous term may comprehend, is ours to make us complete. He cannot endow us with the attributes of Deity; but he has done all that can be done, for he has made even his divine power and Godhead subservient to our salvation. His omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, immutability and infallibility, are all combined for our defence. Arise, believer, and behold the Lord Jesus yoking the whole of his divine Godhead to the chariot of salvation! How vast his grace, how firm his faithfulness, how unswerving his immutability, how infinite his power, how limitless his knowledge! All these are by the Lord Jesus made the pillars of the temple of salvation; and all, without diminution of their infinity, are covenanted to us as our perpetual inheritance. The fathomless love of the Saviour's heart is every drop of it ours; every sinew in the arm of might, every jewel in the crown of majesty, the immensity of divine knowledge, and the sternness of divine justice, all are ours, and shall be employed for us. The whole of Christ, in his adorable character as the Son of God, is by himself made over to us most richly to enjoy. His wisdom is our direction, his knowledge our instruction, his power our protection, his justice our surety, his love our comfort, his mercy our solace, and his immutability our trust. He makes no reserve, but opens the recesses of the Mount of God and bids us dig in its mines for the hidden treasures. "All, all, all are yours," saith he, "be ye satisfied with favour and full of the goodness of the Lord." Oh! how sweet thus to behold Jesus, and to call upon him with the certain confidence that in seeking the interposition of his love or power, we are but asking for that which he has already faithfully promised.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (Christian Classics: Six books by Charles Spurgeon in a single collection, with active table of contents)
May God be a pillar of shield for us.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
God of great mercy! God of great compassion!
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
September 13 “His heavens shall drop down dew.” Deuteronomy 33:28 WHAT the dew in the East is to the world of nature, that is the influence of the Spirit in the realm of grace. How greatly do I need it! Without the Spirit of God I am a dry and withered thing. I droop, I fade, I die. How sweetly does this dew refresh me! When once favoured with it I feel happy, lively, vigorous, elevated. I want nothing more. The Holy Spirit brings me life, and all that life requires. All else without the dew of the Spirit is less than nothing to me: I hear, I read, I pray, I sing, I go to the table of communion, and I find no blessing there until the Holy Ghost visits me. But when he bedews me, every means of grace is sweet and profitable. What a promise is this for me! “His heavens shall drop down dew.” I shall be visited with grace. I shall not be left to my natural drought, or to the world’s burning heat, or to the sirocco of Satanic temptation. Oh, that I may at this very hour feel the gentle, silent, saturating dew of the Lord! Why should I not? He who has made me to live as the grass lives in the meadow, will treat me as he treats the grass: he will refresh me from above. Grass cannot call for dew as I do. Surely, the Lord who visits the unpraying plant will answer to his pleading child.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (The Chequebook of the Bank of Faith: Precious Promises Arranged for Daily Use with Brief Comments)
We are inspired by divine power to write.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
Grace: All that I am and will be.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
He, who dares seek God's presence, will receive His blessings and favours.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
Amazing grace,amazing life.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
If you have life, you have everything.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
May the Creator be with you along unknown journey.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
The soul awakens in times obscurity by divine grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))