Quotes About Grace

Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance; we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide.

Grace is never out of view. Grace secures our relationship with God despite our sin. Grace maintains our forgiveness despite the inadequacies of our repentance. Grace filters the consequences of sin in order to protect us from spiritual harm. When this grace captures our hearts, it compels us to love and serve the God who provides its lavish, loving, and lasting provisions.

Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession.

Our God is not moved by the deeds that we trophy, but by the desperation that we acknowledge as our own.

God will honor prayer truly offered in Jesus' name.

prayer." Praying in Jesus' name is automatically a confession of our unworthiness and a proclamation of his worthiness.

We must remember that our justification (being okay with God) and applied sanctification (being a pure child of God) are never determined by what we do but, rather, by faith in what Christ has done. God expects personal works of holiness as a loving response to his grace, but not as a way of gaining it. If we had to earn grace at any time in our Christian lives, it would not be grace.

It takes no special skill to see what is wrong with people, and to criticize them. But to see people robed in a righteousness not their own and to encourage them on this basis to be more of what they should be powerfully communicates the heart of Christ.

Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.

Jesus designed the Lord's prayer to reveal His desire to give us more fully, graciously, and suitably the very things we most want but seek elsewhere. He does not want to deny us our desires but helps remove the false objects of our affections so that we will have the greater blessings he longs to lavish on us.

Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

The identity I tried to establish by obedience to the Law is dead, the life Jesus lived to fulfill the Law is mine.

We do not proclaim grace so that anyone will make light of sin or of our duty to resist it. We herald God's amazing mercy in order to join with the Spirit in stirring up in his people such a love for God that, when the day of evil comes, they will gladly put on the full armor he provides. Then, despite the hardships and the pain God's people may face in the battle, they will stand strong in the power of his might.

I do not stop being a child of God because I am a problem child.

When God removes good works as a condition for his acceptance, he does not remove righteousness as a requirement for life.

Divine blessing flows from God's mercy rather than from our merit.

While we see our sin, God chooses to gaze upon his Son in us.

Because we have the identity of the Son, we have the favor of the Father.

God wants us to understand the true malignancy of our sin—the problem is too severe to be remedied by our goodness.

Simplicity is eloquence

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just BE beautiful, and life will defend you.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.