Quotes about Grace

Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two." Matthew 5:41     Our Lord's teaching can be summed up in this: the relationship that He demands for us is an impossible one unless He has done a supernatural work in us. Jesus Christ demands that His disciple does not allow even the slightest trace of resentment in his heart when faced with tyranny and injustice.

God answers prayer on the ground of redemption and on no other ground.

Dec. 31… "Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.

God does not expect us to work for Him, but to work with Him.

Remember what makes prayer easy is not our wits or our understanding, but the tremendous agony of God in redemption...Prayer is not what it costs us, but what it cost God to enable us to pray.

He gives us the gift of holiness, are we exercising it?

Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are—you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.

O Lord, when I awake I am still with Thee. Quicken my mortal body with Thy mighty resurrection life; rouse me with a gracious flooding of Thy Divine life for this day.

Every time I judge, I condemn myself (see Romans 2:17—24). Stop having a measuring stick for other people. There is always at least one more fact, which we know nothing about, in every person's situation. The first thing God does is to give us a thorough spiritual cleaning. After that, there is no possibility of pride remaining in us. I have never met a person I could despair of, or lose all hope for, after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Lord, so much activity, so many things, so numberless the people, and yet Thou remainest! Bless today with largeness of heart and beauty of character for Thy glory. O Lord, unto Thee do I look up. Enlighten me, cause me to be radiant with Thy countenance. I praise Thee for Thy grace and for seeing a little of Thy marvellous doings; enable me more and more to manifest the life hid with Christ in God.

And the only solution is a very simple one—"Come to Me." The intellectual, moral, and spiritual depth of our reality as a person is tested and measured by these words.

The marvel of the Redemptive Reality of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His love. Paul did not say that God separated him to show what a wonderful man He could make of him, but "to reveal His son in me.