Quotes About Grace

said, "Isn't it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it's dying?

lobster salad and champagne were the only things a woman should ever be seen eating.

He would rather see you living a life that was honoring to Him, rather than making mistakes and repenting of them repeatedly.

The Christian community demonstrates the effectiveness of the gospel. We are the living proof that the gospel is not an empty word but a powerful word that takes men and women who are lovers of self and transforms them by grace through the Spirit into people who love God and others. We are the living proof that the death of Jesus was not just a vain expression of God's love but an effective death that achieved the salvation of a people who now love one another sincerely from a pure

That's the scandal of grace. It means that if you've been working hard to be right with God, then you've been wasting your time because God welcomes everyone—righteous and unrighteous alike.

Grace is so simple to understand and yet so hard to grasp.

Jesus is handing out God's party invitations. They read: "You're invited to my party in the new creation. Come as you are.

This means if you want to receive God's blessing, you do not need to go looking for some dramatic new experience. The place to be is your local church, where the word is proclaimed and the sacraments are administered. You simply need to read your Bible, listen to expository preaching week by week, and participate in the Lord's Supper. This is where God's grace to us in Christ is found.

Look to Jesus to be enough for you, and there will never, ever come a day when he is not enough.

May heaven be in my eyes that sin might have less power upon my heart.

We don't do good works so we can be saved; we are saved so we can do good works.

No hay necesidad de esconderse ni de fingir. En mayor o menor grado, eres un fracaso como esposo o esposa. Pero la sangre de Jesús cubre y perdona ese fracaso.

Jesus does what legalism can never do: he gives us a new heart and a new spirit. Without

John Calvin says, "No one gives himself freely and willingly to God's service unless, having tasted his fatherly love, he is drawn to love and worship him in return.

We also have a new motivation to battle with sin: we're no longer under law, but under grace. This is counterintuitive. People think that law and legalism will best motivate us to strive to do what's right. But it's grace that enables us to live for God. "For

There are so many blessings that flow from being a Christian, but the real blessing is Christ. Christ is himself his own reward.

The Puritan Richard Sibbes says, "What a comfort is this, that seeing God's love rests on Christ, as well pleased in him, we may gather that he is as well pleased with us, if we be in Christ!

Your identity isn't dependent on your change. You're a child of the heavenly King.

Jesus the Savior can't do his work unless he's with sinful people.

How will we live if we think we need to earn God's approval? How will we live if we are confident we have God's approval in Christ?

I sincerely desire your grace and assistance that I may enact this, my resolution, forsaking all the ways of sin, and watching against its temptations, lest they draw my heart away from you.

Our sin warps our understanding because we all tend toward self-justification. Studying

Our actions don't make us Christians or make us more of a Christian or keep us as Christians—for our union with God is all his work. Our actions do make a difference to our enjoyment of God—for our communion with God (our enjoyment of our union with God) involves a two-way relationship.

The table fellowship of Jesus, with its ethic of grace rather than reciprocity, was creating a new countercultural society in the midst of the Empire.