Quotes about Grace
In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ruined for life as I had known it before, but gloriously ruined!
— Kay Warren
The resolution of good men depends more on the grace of God than on their own wisdom, and they put their whole trust in Him in all their undertakings. Man proposes, but God disposes, and man's destiny is not in his own hands.
— Thomas a Kempis
Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
— CS Lewis
Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
— CS Lewis
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
— CS Lewis
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
— CS Lewis
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
— CS Lewis
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
— CS Lewis
The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
— CS Lewis
The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
— Geerhardus Vos
we are not received by Jesus into a school of ethics but into a kingdom of redemption.
— Geerhardus Vos
Redemption reconstructs the relation of man to God.
— Geerhardus Vos