Quotes About Grace

A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.

Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.

When Christ died on the cross for us, he said, It is finished (John 19:30). The Greek word translated it is finished was commonly written across certificates of debt when they were canceled. It meant paid in full. Christ died so that the certificate of debt, consisting of all our sins, could once and for all be marked paid in full.

Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.

This gift cannot be worked for, earned, or achieved. It's not dependent on our merit or effort but solely on Christ's generous sacrifice on our behalf.

Tithing isn't the ceiling of giving; it's the floor. It's not the finish line of giving; it's the starting blocks. Tithes can launch us into the mind-set, skills, and habits of grace giving.

If we realize we're undeserving, suddenly the world comes alive. Instead of whining about everything that goes wrong, we're surprised at God's many kindnesses, and our hearts overflow with thanks.

Forgiveness is not automatic. It's conditioned upon confession: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). Christ offers to everyone the gift of forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life: "Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life" (Revelation 22:17).

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above" (James 1:17).

I'm not always happy, any more than I'm always holy. But by God's grace, I'm happier in Christ now than I've ever been.

God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us." —Sinclair Ferguson

When we offend everybody, we've declared truth without grace. When we offend nobody, we've watered down truth in the name of grace. John 1:14 tells us Jesus came full of grace AND truth. Let's not choose between them, but be characterized by both.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms." —C. S. Lewis

When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.

C. S. Lewis wrote, "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." Jesus said if your brother "sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him" (Luke 17:4).

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Why aren't you happy?" they tend to focus on their current circumstances. Happy people look to Someone so big that by his grace, even great difficulties provide opportunities for a deeper kind of happiness.

The Spirit's work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin the life of holiness to which we are called." —Horatius Bonar

If you get it right about Jesus, you can afford to get some things wrong. But if you get it wrong about Jesus, in the end it won't matter what else you got right.

The gospel is far greater than most of us imagine.

I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back—but God has a bigger shovel." — R. G. LeTourneau

God could have created us without loving us, but He would not have gone to the Cross without loving us.

The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell." —J. C. Ryle

Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs" (Jonah 2:8).