Lisa notes

“God won’t withhold a single good thing from his children. If a thing is good for us, God will give it to us. If it’s not good, he’ll withhold it. And in God’s kindness, he doesn’t allow us to pick and choose what we would like in our lives.

The promises of God are our weapons in the battle against discontentment. For every temptation to be discontent there’s a promise of God that meets that temptation. The abundant grace of God promised in the Scriptures far exceeds any circumstance we encounter.”

– Stephen Altrogge
The Greener Grass Conspiracy

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“I love to give charity, but I don’t want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

‘Don you are not above the charity of God.’ In that instant he revealed my motives were not noble, they were prideful.

It wasn’t that I cared about my friends more than myself; it was that I believed I was above the grace of God.

Like Rick, I am too prideful to accept the grace of God. It isn’t that I want to earn my own way to give something to God, it’s that I want to earn my own way so I won’t be charity.”

– Donald Miller
Blue like Jazz

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“‘The world can do almost anything as well as or better than the church,’ says Gordon MacDonald. ‘You need not be a Christian to build houses, feed the hungry, or heal the sick. There is only one thing the world cannot do. It cannot offer grace.’

MacDonald has put his finger on the church’s single most important contribution. Where else can the world go to find grace? . . .

I would far rather convey grace than explain it. . . .

Grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations. Grace alone melts ungrace.“

– Philip Yancey
What’s So Amazing about Grace?

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But actually, I’m not sure I fully agree with MacDonald or Yancey or this one….I believe the world can also show grace. Just maybe not as frequently? (And as for “church” showing grace, I’m more comfortable substituting “believers” because unfortunately the “church” often has a bad reputation for showing grace…)  What do you think?

Every day in October I’m sharing a short quote on grace from a favorite book.

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“Naaman is after a tame God, but this is a wild God. Naaman is after a God who can be put into debt, but this is a God of grace, who puts everyone else in his debt. . . .

‘Just wash yourself,’ then, was a command that was hard because it was so easy. To do it, Naaman had to admit he was helpless and weak and had to receive his salvation as a free gift.

If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.

But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, ‘Look at all I’ve done,’ or maybe ‘Look at all I’ve suffered.’

God, however, wants us to look to him—to just wash.”

– Timothy Keller
Counterfeit Gods

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