"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."

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Source : Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.77, Moody Publishers

Erwin W. Lutzer

#Self Quotes #Grace Quotes #Defense Quotes

“We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.”
“Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.”
“If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too.”
“Here in Florida we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.”
“We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League.”
“I noticed that the work of my non - I noticed that the work of my friends who were white and male, specifically, existed in a type of freedom that was not bound by certain political questions and assumptions and locations.”
“A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.”
“You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.”

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