Quotes about Grace
The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.
— Billy Graham
There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.
— John Owen
Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
— John Calvin
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.
— Charles Spurgeon
When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!
— Max Lucado
Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.
— AW Tozer
women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?
— Philip Yancey
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.
— Philip Yancey