Quotes About Grace

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people's sins.

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers—not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times

Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.

It is a doctrine of satan that men are no longer terrified by the law and have replaced it with a gospel of love and grace ONLY!

I felt that I had been born anew and that the gates of heaven had been opened. The whole of Scripture gained a new meaning. And from that point on the phrase, 'the justice of God' no longer filled me with hatred, but rather became unspeakable sweet by virtue of a great love.

We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.

Are we not to call Christ ours because we have not made him but only received him? Again, if we are the makers of things that are called ours, then we must have made our eyes, we must have made our hands, we must have made our feet, unless eyes, hands and feet are not to be called ours.

The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.

Christ is no Moses, no law-giver, no tyrant, but the Mediator for sins, the Giver of grace and life.