Quotes About Grace

Romans 8:32 may be the most important verse in the Bible, because it establishes the unshakable connection between the greatest event in the universe and the greatest future imaginable: "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

When God put Christ in our condemned place, he did this not only to secure heaven, but to secure holiness. Or even more precisely, not only to secure our life in paradise, but also to secure our love for people.

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God.

Therefore everything that you enjoy in Christ - as a Christian, as a person who trusts Christ - is owing to the death of Christ.

If they had more grace to hear, they would receive more that the writer has to give. But they are becoming hard and dull, and in danger of throwing away the little they have.

When we look back to the death and resurrection of Christ, God shows us in the present the enormity of his love for us, and thus warrants all our confidence in future grace. "God shows [present] his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died [past] for us" (Romans 5:8). Without the death of Christ, there would be no future grace.

It is crucial that we realize that grace in Paul's vocabulary is not just a divine disposition to pardon sin. It is also a divine power to work in us all that God requires from us.

You have God- and all that he is for you in Jesus.

Therefore every breath we take, every time our heart beats, every day that the sun rises, every moment we see with our eyes or hear with our ears or speak with our mouths or walk with our legs is, for now, a free and undeserved gift to sinners who deserve only judgement.

The coming of Jesus was a search-and-save mission. "The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

I suppose it will not be denied by any, that God, in glorifying the saints in heaven with eternal felicity, aims to satisfy his infinite grace or benevolence, by the bestowment of a good [which is] infinitely valuable, because eternal: and yet there never will come the moment, when it can be said, that now this infinitely valuable good has been actually bestowed.

the path of obedience is the place where Christ meets us as our servant to carry our burdens and give us his power.

If God alone is enough to support joy when all else is lost, it is a miracle of grace.

Paul worked hard. He did not say that God's grace made his work unnecessary. He said God's grace made his work possible.

God communicates himself to the understanding of the creature, in giving him the knowledge of his glory; and to the will of the creature, in giving him holiness, consisting primarily in the love of God: and in giving the creature happiness, chiefly consisting in joy in God.108 These are the sum of that emanation of divine fullness called in Scripture, the glory of God. The first part of this glory is called truth, the latter, grace

It's not merely a rule to be followed. It's a miracle to be experienced. A grace to be received. It's a promise to be believed. Do you believe, do you trust, that God sees every wrong done to you, that he knows every hurt, that he assesses motives and circumstances with perfect accuracy, that he is impeccably righteous and takes no bribes, and that he will settle all accounts with perfect justice? This is what it means to be "conscious of God" in the midst of unjust pain.

In fact the astonishing thing is that every good deed we do in dependence on Him to "pay Him back" does just the opposite; it puts us ever deeper in debt to His grace.

the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

Labor, therefore, to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ . . . that there may be no room for sin.

May the one thing that you cherish, the one thing that you rejoice in and exult over, be the cross of Jesus Christ.

My hope is that every reader will see that God's God-centeredness-- God's commitment to magnify his name, his holiness, and his glory as the ultimate aim of his providence-- is not a threat to our joy but the basis of it

God, in glorifying the saints in heaven with eternal felicity, aims to satisfy his infinite grace or benevolence, by the bestowment of a good infinitely valuable, because eternal: and yet there never will come the moment, when it can be said, that now this infinitely valuable good has been actually bestowed.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:8).

Cuando creemos que el Señor está más lejos de nosotros o nos ha vuelto la espalda, la verdad es que, mientras nos aferramos a Él, el Señor pone el fundamento para mayor felicidad en nuestra vida. No juzgues con débil sentido al Señor, Más bien confía en Él por su gracia; Detrás de una providencia agobiante Él esconde su rostro sonriente.