When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of humility and the acknowledgment of our flaws in receiving grace.
This quote by Erwin W. Lutzer emphasizes the necessity of shedding our self-righteous facades to truly experience divine grace. By removing our defenses and acknowledging our imperfections, we open ourselves to the possibility of receiving forgiveness and support from a higher power, recognizing our need for growth and humility.
In practice
In a discussion about personal growth and spirituality, this quote can be used to illustrate the journey towards humility.
The ability to make judgments lies at the heart of Christian living. Unless we are able to judge doctrine, lifestyles, and entertainment, unless we are able to distinguish between outer appearance and inner character, we just might miss the purpose for which God placed us on this earth. We might end up accepting a stone for bread and a snake for a fish.
At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.
Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.
In my years, I had the opportunity to observe peoples and countries. I see some countries doing well, others failing, and my analysis of things is that whether you fail or succeed is a function of your value system.
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.
It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.