What we could never become by strength, stamina, and a will of steel—which we lack anyway—we become by the grace of God.

Where God thus clearly displays free mercy, have done with that empty imagination of merit.

Faith was a gift of God whose main function was to create in man a certain knowledge of God's goodness toward us. The

Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.

The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

The design of redemption is to exhibit the grace of God in such a manner as to fill all hearts with wonder and all lips with praise.

The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.