Quotes related to Ephesians 2:8-9
In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us. Now
— Karl Barth
There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.
— Oswald Chambers
The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.
— CS Lewis
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
— Randy Alcorn
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The greatest compliment of the book One Thousand Gifts? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
— Ann Voskamp
I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.
— Anne Graham Lotz
The man or woman who lives worthily now is in a state of salvation.
— Brigham Young
We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.
— Charles Spurgeon
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
— GK Chesterton
Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?
— Reinhold Niebuhr
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher