Steve McVey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Preaching grace produces fruit. Preaching law produces nuts.
-- Steve McVey

#Law #Nuts #Grace
The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead religious activity performed week after week by an evangelical Christian with the intent of impressing his God. It's all religious performance, and God isn't impressed by our performance. What impresses Him is faith.
-- Steve McVey

#Christian #Religious #Fire
The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.
-- Steve McVey

#Cutting #Want #Today
Grace is a system of living whereby God blesses us because we are in Jesus Christ, and for no other reason at all.
-- Steve McVey

#Jesus #Grace #Christ
...if I need to apologize for misrepresenting God's love I'd rather apologize for overstating His love than for understating it.
-- Steve McVey

#Needs #His Love #Apologizing
We don't have two lives-a "spiritual" life here and a "regular" life there. Our life in Christ is one unified lifestyle, and it is who we are wherever we are.
-- Steve McVey

#Spiritual #Two #Who We Are

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure
I have to get back to the hotel. But I don't know the way. I always rely on Shouji so I didn't notice where we were going. Nut I came to this point. without realising my attitude and actions. It's like I am slowing falling into a valley. I wonder where I'm standing now.
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

Steve McVey famous quotes

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