Quotes About Grace

those that have received Christ must by faith live upon him, and not receive his grace in vain.

so we must not come to worship God empty-hearted; our souls must be filled with grace, with pious and devout affections, holy desires towards him, and dedications of ourselves to him, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

We must be the sons of God both by adoption and regeneration, before we can be

Converted sinners ought frequently to reflect upon the sinfulness and misery of the state they were in by nature.

The gospel excludes none who do not exclude themselves.

God proportions his people's trials to their strength, and will not suffer them to be tempted above what they are able, 1 Cor. 10:13.

Christ is the author of salvation to those only that obey him.

I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee

We are all undone, both ministers and people, if we must bear our own iniquity;

but the blood of Christ thoroughly cleanses from all sin, and after it there needs no cleansing.

The better we can accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge ourselves with those artificial delights which have been invented to gratify men's pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency. Nature is content with a little and that which is most natural, grace with less, but lust with nothing. Matthew 1:8-15

Jesus Christ is our great peace-offering; for he made himself a sacrifice, not only to atone for sin, and so to save us from the curse, but to purchase a blessing for us, and all good.

The power of men's laws may bind a man to good behavior, but it is only the power of God's grace that will renew a right spirit within him (Ps. 51:10). It is this that

Those that would find mercy with men must seek it of God, who has all hearts in his hands, and turns them as he pleases.

We have need to be washed in the blood of Christ from our spots, though they be not leprosy-spots;

When Christ by his Spirit draws us we must with our spirits run after him.

All our hopes and joys take their rise from him who is the author of our salvation.

The graces and comforts of the Spirit are communicated to the soul by the enlightening of the understanding.

The blessing of Christ will make a little go a great way.

Every time you become a-better-version-of-yourself, the con-sequences of your transformation echo throughout your family, friends, business, school, neighborhood, church, marriage, nation, and beyond to people and places in the future. It is God who does the transforming, but only to the extent that we cooperate. God's grace is constant, never lacking. So our cooperation with God's desire to transform us is essential; it is the variable. Are you willing to let God transform you?

Being gentle with yourself consists of realizing your faults, failings, and weaknesses, and dealing with them appropriately. God doesn't want us to beat ourselves up. He wants us to press on and try again.

Allow the ordinary to heal you.

Ahora, cualquiera que sea la medida de conocimiento, que un hombre pueda tener de Dios y de Jesucristo, si no es un conocimiento para salvación (conocimiento unido con afecto y aplicación), él es solo un casi cristiano.

Porque, aunque no puede haber gracia sin conocimiento, puede haber mucho conocimiento donde no hay gracia;