Quotes About Grace

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it [charm], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

God's righteousness condemns every attempt to be justified by works.

God's mercy often comes folded into his justice.

Yahweh is mighty to save, whether the saved desire his salvation or not.

Jesus exhaustively receives the wrath of God.

The love of Jesus upholds justice and extends mercy.

God saves Christians not because they have been righteous but because he is merciful

From eternity past God purposed to visit judgment on Jesus so that he could show mercy to the elect.

The proclamation of judgment against those who would justify themselves by the law is meant to lead to salvation.

Jesus has shown the world its bankruptcy so that the world might feel its need for the bailout he provides.

Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as "I sinned again, I need to repent," but as "I sinned against my God again, but He is calling me back so He can lavish me with His love and forgiveness.

Given the impossibility of not failing one another, when the Bible says, "We all stumble in many ways,"7 the only way forward in loving community with one another is forgiveness.

I'll take a bath and then I'll return." No, God is the bath.

In our homes, where we work, in our friendships, we come inevitably to a fork in the road where we must decide, "Will I forgive that?" If the answer is yes, we go forward together in love. If we choose "no, I will not forgive," at that point we will tend to amplify the fault we observe to excuse our withdrawal into bitterness. Everyone loses—and the gospel most of all.

Colossians 2:6 says, "As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him." The path to salvation by faith travels down the way of repentance and we never leave that road.

God brings us low, even to the point of death, in order to bring us up again.

We are only prepared to receive and comprehend the grace of God when we have understood His infinite holiness and our incredible sinfulness.

For those who love God all things work together for good.

Grace easily turns to hyper-grace in a world that has lost its view of God's throne room and a biblical theology of sin.

Suffering related to circumstances beyond my control, suffering related to consequences of my besetting sin, and suffering caused by others who refused to see their own sin. In all these instances, the Lord has been at work, refining my focus upon personal holiness, amplifying my ministry through very humbling experiences, and reminding me repeatedly to extend grace not just to the gracious but to those who lack a grace I took too long to come to myself.

Yet many are living that very life, deluded by weak preaching and deceived by biblical illiteracy into thinking grace coddles the unrepentant.

God will call; they won't answer. Stubbornness of the heart is a terminal sickness. There is no solution for that condition apart from repentance and God's work of grace to break the heart.

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.

people who have been saved by grace grow to love giving grace to others.