Quotes About Grace

When he was taken this last time, he was preaching on these words, viz.:Dost thou believe the Son of God?  And this imprisonment continued six years, and when this was over, another short affliction, which was an imprisonment of half a year, fell to his share.  During these confinements he wrote the following books, viz.: Of Prayer by the Spirit: The Holy City's Resurrection: Grace Abounding: Pilgrim's Progress, the first part.

Christ is my righteousness. I am neither less righteous for my ill deservings nor more righteous for my good deservings, for Christ is my righteousness, and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

He has given me rest by his sorrow and life by his death.

if sin is Satan's rope by which the soul is bound, how can it resist till it is released from that weakness. Secondly, how could anyone who is acquainted with either reason or grace, believe that a man who is a slave to his own corruption

Wherefore, sinner, here is laid a necessity upon thee, one of the two must be thy lot; either thou must accept God's grace, and be content to be saved freely thereby, notwithstanding all thy undeserving and unworthiness, or else thou must be damned for thy rebellion and for thy rejecting of this grace

He stood still for a while and looked with astonishment at the cross. It surprised him that the sight of the cross released him of his burden. He looked and looked again as tears ran down his cheeks. (

he loves me with love that passeth knowledge, and I will love him. His love stripped him of all for my sake; Lord, let my love strip me of all for thy sake. I am a son of love, an object of love, a monument of love; of free love, of distinguishing love, of peculiar love, and of love that passeth knowledge: and why should not I walk in love-in love to God, in love to man, in holy love, in love unfeigned?

Grace is king.

Entonces una mano le entregó algunas hojas del árbol de la vida, que Cristiano tomó y puso en las heridas que había recibido en la batalla, y fue sanado de inmediato.

Esta sala es el corazón del hombre que nunca fue santificado por la dulce gracia del evangelio; el polvo es su pecado original, y corrupciones interiores que han contaminado al hombre completo. Quien comenzó a barrer al principio es la Ley, pero quien trajo agua, y la roció, es el evangelio.

By his sacrifice he has made way for grace to run like a river into the world.

I never saw those heights and depths in grace, and love, and mercy, as I saw after this temptation; great sins to draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.  When Job had passed through his captivity, he had twice as much as he had before.  Job xlii. 10. 

For if God shall come to you indeed, and visit you with the forgiveness of sins, that visit removeth the guilt, but increaseth the sense of thy filth, and the sense of this that God hath forgiven a filthy sinner, will make thee both rejoice and tremble.

For many there are, who, in the day of grace and mercy, despise those things which are indeed the birthright to heaven, who yet when the deciding day appears, will cry as lord as Esau, Lord, Lord, open to us; but then, as Isaac would not repent, no more will God the Father, but will say, I have blessed these, yea, and they shall be blessed; but as for you, Depart, you are the workers of iniquity.  Gen. xxvii. 32; Luke xiii. 25-27.

suddenly this sentence rushed in upon me, The blood of Christ remits all guilt.  At this I made a stand in my spirit: with that this word took hold upon me, The blood of Jesus Christ His Son, cleanseth us from all sin.  1 John i. 7. 144.  Now I began to conceive peace in my soul, and methought I saw, as if the tempter did leer and steal away from me, as being ashamed of what he had done. 

The grace He supplies ignites the soul of His people like a roaring fire that, despite the devil's best efforts, will never be extinguished. This is a difficult concept for man to understand—that even when we are tempted, Christ is doing all the work by supplying the grace we need to stand firm.

O! what did I now see in that blessed sixth of John: And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.  John vi. 37.  Now I began to consider with myself, that God hath a bigger mouth to speak with, than I had a heart to conceive with; I thought also with myself, that He spake not His words in haste, or in an unadvised heat, but with infinite wisdom and judgment, and in very truth and faithfulness.  2 Sam. iii. 28.

And so he explained that you must be justified by Him, by trusting in what He accomplished when He suffered by hanging on the tree. (But to him that does not work, but believes in him that justifies the ungodly, the faith is counted as righteousness. – Rom. 4:5)

It doth not say, the Lord gives gifts and glory, but the Lord gives grace and glory; and blessed is such an one, to whom the Lord gives grace, true grace; for that is a certain forerunner of glory.

There is an endless kingdom to be enjoyed, and everlasting life to be given us, that we may live in that kingdom forever.

Cuando Cristo dijo: '¿Conocen todas estas cosas?', y los discípulos hubieron dicho sí, Él añadió: 'Benditos son si las hacen'. Él no puso la bendición en el conocerlas, sino en el hacerlas

Porque 'no es aprobado el que se halaga a sí mismo, sino aquel a quien el Señor halaga'.

Prudence: Now James, can you tell me who made you? James: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Prudence: Good boy. And can you tell me who saves you? James: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Prudence: Good boy again. But how does God the Father save you? James: By his grace. Prudence: How does God the Son save you?

cómo te salva Dios Padre?". JACOBO: "Por su gracia". PRUDENCIA: "¿Cómo te salva Dios Hijo?". JACOBO: "Por su justicia, su muerte, su sangre y su vida". PRUDENCIA: "¿Y cómo te salva Dios Espíritu Santo?". JACOBO: "Por su iluminación, por su renovación y por su preservación".