Quotes About Grace

The art of illusion is grace itself.

As the middle son, I of course represent the perfect balance. Wit, physical prowess and a multitude of talents to match my natural grace. When combined with my extraordinary ability to waste it all, you see, standing before you, the exquisite culmination.

In all that is to come, think on forgiveness. Hold to it, but know too that it must not always be freely given. Sometimes forgiveness must be denied.

As he made his way back to his estate, Baruk recalled his lone meeting with Vorcan, only a few nights after her awakening. She had entered the chamber with her usual feline grace. The wounds she had borne were long healed and she had found a new set of clothes, loose and

We are all worthwhile, sir, once we assume the burden of forgiveness and the effort of absolution.

that's what I love about you," he said. "You help the mantle of senility rest so gently.

In Christ God loved us, His elect and chosen, before the world began, and reserved us unto the knowledge of his Son and of His holy gospel.30

No man is too weak for God to use, only too strong.

We may never say, "I was looking for God, and I found him." We may only ever testify, "I was not looking for any God other than myself—and he found me." You did not work it out. Our seeking never does. He sought you out and he saved your soul, and this is the testimony we all share.

Predestination … and salvation are clean taken out of our hands, and put in the hands of God only … for we are so weak and so uncertain, that if it stood in us, there would of a truth be no man saved; the devil, no doubt, would deceive us.23

By grace (that is to say, by favor) we are plucked out of Adam, the ground of all evil, and grafted in Christ, the root of all goodness.28 You are chosen for Christ's sake to the inheritance of eternal life.29

Grace does not diminish our responsibility to the moral requirements of what God requires. Grace does not lower the standard. Rather, grace enables us to meet it. Grace empowers us to fulfill what God requires. Obedience to the word is never optional for the Christian.

It was not for the entire world that Christ made atonement, for if He had, all the world would be saved.

Take Christ from Christianity, and you disembowel it; there is practically nothing left. Christ is the centre of Christianity, all else is circumference." (Basic Christianity, page 27)

Gain" means to receive a great profit. Paul realizes that death will usher him to a much greater gain. The grave will graduate him to glory.

While some who do not hold to Spurgeon's view of the doctrines of grace might wonder how he could be a Calvinist and yet be evangelistic, Lawson clearly demonstrates that the prince of preachers was a bold evangelist precisely because of his Calvinism.

El tema central de toda la Biblia es Jesucristo, el Redentor de todos los que lo invocan

3 Charles H. Spurgeon, "Election", sermón sobre 2 Tesalonicenses 2:13-14, predicado el 2 de septiembre de 1855; citado por David Steele y Curtis Thomas, The Five Points of Calvinism (Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1963),

What is clear is that a spiritually dead sinner contributes nothing—except his sin—to His salvation, not even his faith.

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.

Jesus was guilty of nothing. Yet on the cross, the Father treated Him as if He had committed personally every sin ever committed by every individual who would ever believe. Though He was blameless, He faced the full fury of God's wrath, enduring the penalty of sin on behalf of those He came to save. In this way, the sinless Son of God became the perfect substitute for the sinful sons of men.

Boice reasons, "If Jesus died for all the sins of all men, unbelief included, then all are saved, which the Bible denies. If He died for all the sins of all men, unbelief excluded, then He did not die for all the sins of anybody and all must be condemned. There is no other position, save that He died for the sin of His elect people only."19

God dances with the outcast.

If you don't find forgiveness, you'll never end up with peace,