Quotes About Grace

Our believing has no power of itself; we certainly aren't saved by belief. We're saved by the grace and goodness and majesty of him in whom we believe—by the one whom we confess as we believe. In a real sense, our belief is nothing in and of itself. It's simply a looking to him, a listening to him, in which we are wholly absorbed by that which we see and hear.

We desperately need pardon. We need to have the past erased. We need, somehow, to have sin dealt with so that it no longer controls us and makes the present the slave of the past.

The might of God isn't infinite energy which could break out anywhere and do anything; it's not a shapeless force. God's might is God's might, the infinite resourcefulness of the God of grace.

In company with Christians down through the ages, we read…every passage of Scripture…out of the fact that for us, the center of Scripture is Jesus Christ.

God bends even our sins to his purpose.

Paul's contentment derives from God. It's not a matter of human strength of character; it's a matter of human weakness transfigured by the astonishing sufficiency of God. Contentment is that exercise of faith in which we accept the sufficiency of God. It's not feeling all right; it's not mastery of circumstance. It's the fruit of the conversion of our lives to the grace and goodness of God.

And grace is a little New Testament shorthand word for the miracle of God's mercy in Jesus Christ. Grace has a name, the name of Jesus; he is grace, embodied and acted out: "For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people" (Titus 2:11). To say that we are under grace is to say that the final truth of our lives, the final authority by which we are made and judged, is Jesus Christ the mercy of God.

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?

No outward practices will stand in the place of the new birth. Nothing under heaven will stand in its place.

I pity those who can find no good at church. But how should they if prejudice come between, an effectual bar to the grace of God?

none can trust in the merits of Christ, till he has utterly renounced his own.

Let me daily grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

May we all thus experience what it is to be not almost only, but altogether Christians! Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus, knowing we have peace with God through Jesus Christ, rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, and having the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the l holy Ghost given unto us!

Thus it is unquestionably true that he who has been born of God, by "keeping himself," does not, cannot sin; and yet, if he does not keep himself, he may commit all manner of sin with greediness.

being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus; knowing we have peace with God through Jesus Christ; rejoicing in hope of the glory of God; and having the love of God shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost given unto us!

not a shadow thereof, but a real degree, by the preventing grace of God,)

O break my Bonds, let Sin enthrall My struggling Soul no more; Hear thy fall'n Creature's feeble Call, Thine Image O restore! And tho' my Heart senseless and hard To Thee can scarcely groan, Yet O remember, gracious Lord, Thou once didst write in Stone!

but his long thin fingers moved with grace and persuasion, as if giving to the words a shape that his voice could not.

La voce era secca e monocorde e gli usciva dalle labbra quasi immobili, senza espressione o intonazione, mentre le sue lunghe dita sottili si muovevano con grazia e decisione, come per restituire alle parole quella forma che la voce non riusciva a dargli.

Nikolas was his Morning Star and nothing Nikolas now said or did could lessen the brilliance of his fallen grace.

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

Be merciful to him who is beneath you, and you will have mercy from Him who is above you. The