Quotes about Grace

He loved us to the uttermost. And let us be so moved by this love that it becomes our own.

Every breath we take is a gift of grace. Every heartbeat, undeserved. Life and death are finally in the hands of God:

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

We Boast Best in the Cross When We Bear It

Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus.

When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not sin. The real danger is yielding to them. Giving in. Putting up no spiritual fight. And the root of that surrender is unbelief - a failure to fight for faith in future grace. A failure to cherish all that God promises to be for us in Jesus.

And because his love for you never had a beginning, it can have no end.

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

God is committed to rewarding those acts of the human heart that signify human helplessness and hope in God.

So waiting is a holy work Of faith in God. Nor does there lurk Beneath the timing of his ways Some secret malice that displays Itself in holding back the flow Of future grace. God does not go From here to there by shortest routes; He makes a place for faith and doubts. Nor does he hasten on his way, But comes when it is best, today, Or maybe twenty years from now, Or more.

The point is that an $80,000 or a $180,000 salary does not have to be accompanied by an $80,000 or a $180,000 lifestyle. God is calling us to be conduits of his grace, not cul-de-sacs. Our great danger today is thinking that the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do. No matter how grateful we are, gold will not make the world think that our God is good; it will make people think that our god is gold. That is no honor to the supremacy of his worth.

There never has been a greater act of love than that Jesus laid down his life to save sinners (John 15:13; Rom. 5:6-8).