Quotes about Grace

The electric bulb cannot give light without electricity. Likewise, you cannot change yourself if today you are cut off from Christ. If there be any change or difference in you, it is not because you yourself have changed, for all is in Christ. Such is the way of God's salvation.[2]

For Christianity begins not with a big do, but with a big done.

power of the Holy Spirit is superabundant.

God never asks us to do anything we can do. He asks us to live a life which we can never live and to do a work which we can never do. Yet, by His grace, we are living it and doing it.

Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves. In the degree that we look off unto Him to that degree are we delivered from self. We rest on the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, not on our own shifting experience. True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on looking off to the Savior!

God is well able to deal with our sins; but He cannot deal with a man under accusation, because such a man is not trusting in the Blood.

Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

We're all fallen people in a fallen world.

As strange as it sounds, broken people are fixed by other broken people. It's God's economy.

And they ate supper before they said grace...Oh, um...she moved into his house, stayed awhile, and then they got married.

Child, the Lord gives you what you need, when you need it.