Quotes related to Ephesians 2:8-9
If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.
— Timothy Keller
Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.
— Timothy Keller
Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
— Timothy Keller
You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
— Vance Havner
Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.
— Francis Chan
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.
— John Owen
Our sin is what separates us from God, but it's our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the grace He willingly gives to all who come.
— Paul David Tripp
Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.
— Peter Kreeft
God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.
— RC Sproul
When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.
— Richard Baxter
Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.
— Francis Chan
Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.
— Andy Stanley