Quotes About Grace

Self-righteousness crushes prayer, reducing it to an empty religious recitation spoken by one who sees himself as a grace graduate. Run to Jesus in your poverty and weakness, and know that he is never revolted when you do, but always greets you with arms of grace.

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

Si Dios ya te ha otorgado un lugar en la eternidad, entonces también te ha otorgado toda la gracia que necesitas para el camino, de lo contrario nunca llegarías.

The same grace that forgives your past empowers you to live in a new way in the future.

putting your entire existence in the hands of One whom you cannot see, touch, or hear is far from natural. This is why faith is only ever a gift of divine grace.

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.

Your love is never your foundation; his eternal love is. Live in this hope.

Christ has gained God's favor on your behalf. So your obedience is never a fearful payment, but a hymn of gratitude to a God who met you where you were and did for you what you could not have done for yourself.

Grace forces you to feel the pain of your regrets, but never asks you to pay for them, because the price has already been paid by Jesus.

There are times when you are tempted to wonder if it's all worth it. But in all this, God is still at work, molding you into the likeness of his Son. It is, in many ways, a multifaceted life of hardship—the hardships of life in this fallen world intersecting with the restorative hardships of grace.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

We need more than acceptance or practical strategies for change. We need the forgiveness, deliverance, and empowerment that only God's grace can give.

Pastor, your eternal future carries with it the sure promise that you will have all the grace you need to do what you've been called to do between the time you came to Christ and the time you will go home to be with him forever.

If you're God's child, you will never again have just you to depend on. No, you've been blessed, right here, right now, with grace.

God is not satisfied with you being a witness to his work of grace. He's called you to be an instrument of that grace to others.

when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.

Our problem is that we tend to be unfaithful to his holy agenda and get kidnapped by our plans for us and our dreams for our lives. The trials in our lives exist not because he has forgotten us, but because he remembers us and is changing us by his grace. When you remember that, you can have joy in the middle of what is uncomfortable.

your hope is not to be found in your willingness and ability to endure, but in God's unshakable, enduring commitment to never turn from his work of grace.

If you aren't daily admitting to yourself that you are a mess and in daily and rather desperate need for forgiving and transforming grace, and if the evidence around has not caused you to abandon your confidence in your own righteousness, then you are going to give yourself to the work of convincing yourself that you are okay.

Your biggest need (and mine) is a fully restored relationship with God.

It's never hopeless and you're never helpless if Immanuel has invaded your life with his glory and grace.

Nuestras bendiciones nunca son el pago por el bien que hemos hecho, y nuestras pruebas nunca son un castigo por los males que hemos cometido.

Since God writes your story, he knows what you're facing and exactly what grace you'll need to live his way.

Only as we see our story enfolded in the larger story of redemption will we begin to live God-honoring lives.