Quotes about Grace

Christ's obedience has not rendered ours unnecessary: rather has it rendered ours acceptable.

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins" (Eph. 2:1). As John Gill said, "The design of the apostle in this and some following verses, is to show the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and to set forth the sad estate and condemnation of man by nature, and to magnify the riches of the grace of God, and represent the exceeding greatness of His power by conversion.

God is no gainer even from our worship. He was in no need of that external glory of His grace which arises from His redeemed, for He is glorious enough in Himself without that. What was it that moved Him to predestinate His elect to the praise of the glory of His grace? It was, as Ephesians 1:5 tells us, "according to the good pleasure of His will.

I have learned how blessed to my own soul is communion with Him, but who would have supposed that my communion was blessed to Christ! Yet it is. For this He still "thirsts." Grace enables us to offer that which refreshes Him.

O unsaved reader, if a work of grace has already begun in your heart so that you realize your wretchedness and long for that peace and rest which this poor world is unable to give, fix it firmly in your mind that One only can give you what you seek.

Truly, God is "no respecter" of persons or He would not have saved me.

The prickings of an uneasy conscience are not the same as the conviction of sin which is produced by the Holy Spirit.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Nobody is beyond the reach of the Gospel.

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.