Quotes About Grace

Sin holds the physical glories of the here-and-now world in front of you and tells you that they are the only glories worth living for. Sin shrinks your zeal and narrows your vision. Sin makes it hard to see beyond the borders of your own life. Grace enables you to tear down fences of self-focus, self-defensiveness, and self-protection so you can reach out to God and others. In so doing you will not only experience true glory, but you will recapture your true humanity.

when Jesus touches me with his rescuing grace, he is freeing me from my bondage to me!

Look at your trials and see grace. Behind those difficulties is an ever-present Redeemer who is completing his work.

One of the stunning realities of the Christian life is that in a world where everything is in some state of decay, God's mercies never grow old. They never run out. They never are ill timed. They never dry up. They never grow weak. They never get weary. They never fail to meet the need. They never disappoint. They never, ever fail, because they really are new every morning.

Christ's sacrifice satisfied the Father's anger so that, as his child, you will receive his discipline but need not fear his wrath.

God's grace often does its best and brightest work when things are the darkest and most difficult.

When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

It is the single most stunning reality in the life of a believer. God has placed his love on us and he will never again remove it. There's a reason to continue, no matter how hard life seems and how weak you feel.

A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude.

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy.

This is the good news of the gospel. Peace came. Peace lived. Peace died. Peace rose again. Peace reigns on your behalf. Peace indwells you by the Spirit. Peace graces you with everything you need. Peace convicts, forgives, and delivers you. Peace will finish his work in you. Peace will welcome you into glory, where Peace will live with you in peace and righteousness forever. Peace isn't a faded dream. No, Peace is real. Peace is a person, and his name is Jesus.

It didn't begin just before you were born. It began before the world was born. He placed his grace on you and wrote your story in such a way that at a certain point in time you would hear the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe. His love for you is never a result of your character; it is a clear demonstration of his. He granted you and me what we never could have deserved; our new life is his choice, his gift.

Yes, it is true—God will remain faithful even when you're not, because his faithfulness rests on who he is, not on what you're doing.

No solo hemos sido liberados de la necesidad de cumplir la ley para ser salvos, sino también de la esclavitud al pecado en la vida diaria. Hemos sido liberados del peso de la ley para vivir una vida piadosa. No podemos gloriarnos en nuestra liberación sin a la vez aceptar nuestro llamado (ver Ro 6:1-14; Tit 2:11-14).

God knew that our calling would be so huge and our weakness so deep that the only thing that would help us was himself. So in an act of incredible grace, he has unbuttoned us and gotten inside of us. Now think about this as a parent. This God who has the ability to do things that are way beyond your ability to conceive, who has perfect wisdom and unlimited strength, right now lives inside of you.

Since sin is deeper than bad behavior, trying to do better isn't a solution. Only grace that changes the heart can rescue us.

You don't have to worry, because you have a Savior who has invaded your life with his grace and has made you the place where he dwells.

He is not only your indwelling Savior, he is your reigning King. He does in you what you could not do for yourself and he does outside of you what you have no power or authority to do.

This means he fights for us even when we have given up the fight. Our desire to follow him may weaken, but he will never give up or turn his back on us. He knows us because he made us, which is why he sent his Son to be for us what we could not be for ourselves and to do for us what we could not do on our own.

Good parenting lives at the intersection of a humble admission of personal powerlessness and a confident rest in the power and grace of God.

Think about this. The One who created and controls the world, the One who is the ultimate definition of what is loving, true, and good, and the One who alone has the power to finally defeat sin has chosen, because of his grace, to wrap his arms of faithful love and protection around you, and he will not let you go. You can take your life off your shoulders because God has placed it on his.

It requires powerful mercy for me to become a person who surrenders self-appointed authority to the authority of God.

Let's start the new year by admitting that there is nothing less natural for us than to live for the glory of another. This admission is the doorway not to despair, but to hope. God knew that in your sin you would never live this way, so he sent his Son to live the life you couldn't, to die on your behalf, and to rise again, conquering sin and death. He did this so that you would not only be forgiven for your allegiance to you own glory, but have every grace you need to live for his.

We are God's forever and ever. He will never turn his back on us. He will never angrily throw our sin in our faces. He will never withdraw his presence and his promises, no matter how messed up we continue to be, because our standing with him is not based on our performance, but on the perfect record of his Son. But