Quotes about Grace

Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God.

The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.

Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness.

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.

The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

We can draw no deadlines for God. He hastens or He delays as he sees fit. And his timing is all-loving toward his children. On, that we might learn to be patient in the hour of darkness. I don't mean that we make peace with darkness. We fight for joy. But we fight as those who are saved by grace and held by Christ. We say...that our night will soon- in God's good timing- turn to day.