Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
– John Piper
Related Quotes:
- Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we’ve got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever. – Rick Riordan
- – Murder is a sin. It’s a sin in Judaism, it’s a sin in Christianity, it’s a sin in Islam and every other-¦- I’ll decide what’s a sin. – Robert Ferrigno
- Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do. – Sndor Mrai
- 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 wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God. – John Piper
- In times of trouble leniency becomes crime. – Azhar
- We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe – John Updike
- I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God. – John Piper
- Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul. – John Bunyan
- You are here to feel the joy of life by empowering, enabling, enlightening humanity so that humanity may find its own joy. – Debasish Mridha
- Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society. – Melissa Cady
- When you are positive you are the enabling force of possibility. – Bryant McGill
- Effective leaders have the ability to serve and appreciate others while at the same time enabling them to achieve greatness. – NAME
- Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon. – Criss Jami
- God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn’t. Copper will do. – John Piper
- He came to destroy sin because it is fatal. – John Piper
- Don’t make peace with the sin in your life. – John Piper
- To have sinned and wake up the next day is truly a miracle, repent. – Okisha Jackson
- Talking about pollution, nobody’s holy.They who pollute, sinned against nature. – Toba Beta
- The blood of Christ justifies and saves us . . .The word justification means -œjust as if you had never sinned. – Billy Graham
- I confess that I have lived, so I confess that I have sinned. – Vlgame
- The big idea here is not, have you sinned, but are you changing? – Mark Driscoll
- There is no ‘big sin’ or ‘little sin’, it’s just sin. – Braden Pedersen
- Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encounter with the mercy of Jesus takes place is my sin. – Pope Francis
- Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
- A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart-”a heart that is astonished at grace. – John Piper
- God can break the chain of every sin that binds you if you are willing to give it up. He comes into your heart and gives you power to overcome sin. – Billy Graham
- Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream. – Ryan Lilly
- God without Christ is no God. – John Piper
- The sin and guilt of the human race was imputed to the spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ when He became the sin offering for the world. – John Paul Warren
- Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power – Sweety Shinde
- To preach about sin, but refuse to integrate grace and mercy is a sermonic sin. – Rev Corey M Osborne
- Where God’s grace takes you, grace will increase your capability and your capacity. Grace will empower you. – Edmond Sanganyado
- God needs loving, accepting, and compassionate people-”not accepting of sin, but accepting God’s forgiveness of sin for all who repent. – Teresa Schultz
- If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t. – Hyman G Rickover
- I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it’s true I can be stubborn.’ ‘Sometimes?’ she added derisively. ‘Quite often,’ he tempered. – SN Lemoing
- Pardon me Mam,I’m new in town, could you please show me the way to your house? – Frank Calvin Mann
- Do you understand what I’m saying?Pardon? I just wanna hear you talking. – Toba Beta
- Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights. – George Washington