Quotes related to Ephesians 2:8-9
The doctrines of grace stand or fall together, and together they point to one central truth: salvation is all of grace because it is all of God; and because it is all of God, it is all for His glory.
— James Montgomery Boice
Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.
— Randy Alcorn
I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all.
— Maya Angelou
I wish I could say that everything I do is for God's glory but I can't. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus' blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
— Tullian Tchividjian
God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.
— AW Tozer
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.
— Brennan Manning
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
— John Donne
God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.
— Joyce Meyer
He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.
— Timothy Keller
Ggrace is God's best idea - it's His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly.
— Max Lucado