Quotes About Grace

But, as Paul is at pains to stress, the law is good, and just, and holy.50 And we need to understand, sense, feel, and then delight in the grace of law.51 For unless we are persuaded that God has shown his grace in his law as well as in his Son, all we will hear and see at Sinai is thunder and lightning.

Thus it is understanding God's grace—that is to say, understanding God himself 178—that demolishes legalism. Grace highlights legalism's bankruptcy and shows that it is not only useless; it is pointless; its life breath is smothered out of it.

Repentance is suffused with faith; otherwise it is legal. But then without repentance, faith would be no more than imagination.

At the end of the day we cannot divide faith and repentance chronologically. The true Christian believes penitently, and he repents believingly.

To run, to work, the law commands, The gospel gives me feet and hands. The one requires that I obey, The other does the power convey.

Then all my servile works were done A righteousness to raise; Now, freely chosen in the Son, I freely choose his ways.

salvation becomes ours in Christ and not merely through Christ.

You must first have Christ himself, before you can partake of those benefits by him.19

True Christian liberty, unlike the various freedom or liberation movements of the secular world, is not a matter of demanding the rights we have.

This is the key to the enjoyment of assurance precisely because assurance is our assurance that he is a great Savior and that he is ours.

But it is serpentine logic, for it simply compounds the old legal spirit. It is the natural instinct of the once-antinomian prodigal who, when awakened, thinks in terms of working his way back into the favor of his father.38

Our faith and works are merely reflections of the salvation we have received, not a contributing factor to it.

Whatever form, however, Antinomianism may assume, it springs from legalism. None rush into the one extreme but those who have been in the other.

Notice what this means. Gospel assurance is not withheld from God's children even when they have not shown themselves to be strong. What

And he watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son. Therefore, indeed, I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity.

An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.

En consecuencia, la gracia, no la ley, produce lo que la ley exige; pero al mismo tiempo, la ley exige lo que la gracia produce.

Te ruego que consideres que Dios el Padre, al ser movido en Su Hijo Jesucristo únicamente por Su amor gratuito hacia la humanidad perdida, ha efectuado un acta de donación a todos ellos, para que todo aquel que cree en este Su Hijo, no perezca, sino que tenga vida eterna.3

Y por esta razón, Jesucristo mismo dijo a Sus discípulos en Marcos 16:15: "Vayan por todo el mundo y anuncien las buenas nuevas a toda criatura"; es decir, ¡vayan y díganle a cada hombre, sin excepción, que hay buenas noticias para él! ¡Cristo murió por él! Y que si está dispuesto a recibirlo y a aceptar Su justicia, Cristo será suyo.

You do not know her, but she has a soul of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men.

Dear killer, spare not they sweet-cruel shot: A kind of grace it is to slay with speed. - From Astrophel and Stella

I forgive you, Sir Knight, said Rowena, as a Christian. That means, said Wamba, that she does not forgive him at all.

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances! Honored and blessed be the ever-green Pine! Long may the tree, in his banner that glances, Flourish, the shelter and grace of our line! Heaven send it happy dew, Earth lend it sap anew, Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow, While every Highland glen Sends our shout back again, 'Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!

Dear Lord, do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.