Quotes about Grace

If you believe in Jesus, you will find that God has nourished in you mighty torrents of blessing for others.

His agony is the basis of the simplicity of our salvation.

God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

But I cannot make myself right with God; I cannot make my life perfect. I can only be right with God if I accept the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ as an absolute gift.

Once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vise, constrained by the love of God.

Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him." Then why ask? The idea of prayer is not in order to get answers from God; prayer is perfect and complete oneness with God. If we pray because we want answers, we will get huffed with God. The answers come every time, but not always in the way we expect, and our spiritual huff shows a refusal to identify ourselves with our Lord in prayer; we are here to be living monuments of God's grace.

The moral miracle of Redemption is that God can put into me a new disposition whereby I can live a totally new life.

The greatest characteristic of a saint is humility, as evidenced by being able to say honestly and humbly, "Yes, all those, as well as other evils, would have been exhibited in me if it were not for the grace of God. Therefore, I have no right to judge.

Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy—it is drawing from Jesus the very holiness that was exhibited in Him, and that He now exhibits in me.

One thing is certain—He will never throw our past failures back in our faces.

You cannot do anything for your salvation, but you must do something to manifest it, you must work out what God has worked in.

O Lord, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us this day, and make us to fit in with Thy plans with great sweetness and light and liberty, and a lilt to Thee all day.