Quotes About Grace

God does not measure the precepts of his law by human strength, but, after ordering what is right, freely bestows on his elect the power of fulfilling it.

Faithful is the Lord, who has made himself our debtor, not by receiving any thing from us, but by promising us all things," (August. in Ps. 32, 109, et alibi).

Christ, therefore,   died for our sins, in order to redeem or separate us from the world.

men are justified by believing, not by what they do. It is by faith they obtain grace: and grace cannot be earned as a payment for works. Since

For if by natural instinct or wisdom we could bring ourselves back to the road and escape from error, we would have no need for Christ. But

in the school of Christ, men are not merely taught about justification; they are made just by what he has done for them. And

Where God thus clearly displays free mercy, have done with that empty imagination of merit.

Let us know,   therefore, that when we have departed from Christ, nothing remains for   us but death.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

The Jews were continually warned not to look for the reason for their adoption elsewhere than in God's free favor. He had seen fit to choose them; this alone was the source of their security.

God (says he), who created all things very good, foreknew that evil would arise out of that good; and He also knew that His glorious and omnipotent goodness would be the more highly exalted by His producing good out of evil, than by His not permitting evil to be at all. He ordained the life of angels and of men, that He might first of all make it manifest by that life what free will could do, and then afterwards show what the blessing of His grace and the judgment of His justice could do.

the faith of   the gospel is called the knowledge of God's grace; for no one has ever   tasted of the gospel but the man that knew himself to be reconciled to   God, and took hold of the salvation that is held forth in Christ.   

the apostle teaches us that nothing from us will please God, unless we are purged by the blood of Christ. Since

But Scripture praises everywhere his pure and unmixed mercy, which does away with all merit.

The law, in so far as it leads men to put their confidence in it, consigns them necessarily to death. The

Likewise, what grounds He gives us to consider His mercy! When He does not stop showing His mercy to miserable sinners, leading them back to Him by His more than paternal mercy until their obstinacy is broken down by His benefits.

we should learn that there is no light in the law, or even in the whole Word of God, without Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness.

let us remember that while life is promised in Christ to all who believe, only a small part of the people are believers. Christ

Let, therefore, everyone who has shared in all the benefits which Christ has conferred upon us know that his whole life ought to conform to the death of Christ.

Christ is indeed presented to all, but God opens the eyes of the elect alone, and enables them by faith to seek after him. The

There is nothing absurd in the doctrine, that though man is justified by faith, he is himself not only not righteous, but the righteousness attributed to his works is beyond their own deserts.

The law itself does not produce sin; it finds sin in us. It offers life to us; but we, being evil, derive nothing but death from it. Hence

If the testimony by which the Jews were assured of the salvation of their posterity is taken away from us, the coming of Christ would have the effect of making God's grace more obscure and less well attested to us than it was to the Jews before us.

when the law is separated from Christ, nothing is left but empty forms. This