Quotes about Grace

Forgiveness is essentially God's way of removing the great obstacle to our fellowship with him. By canceling our sin and paying for it with the death of his own Son, God opens the way for us to see him and know him and enjoy him forever. Seeing and savoring him is the goal of forgiveness. Soul-satisfying fellowship with our Father is the aim of the cross. If we love being forgiven for other reasons alone, we are not forgiven, and we will waste our lives.

The one God has chosen unconditionally he keeps invincibly. Being and staying a believer is decisively of sovereign grace.

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.

Humility is the soil in which everything good in the Christian life grows.

The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.

He loved us to the uttermost. And let us be so moved by this love that it becomes our own.

Every breath we take is a gift of grace. Every heartbeat, undeserved. Life and death are finally in the hands of God:

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.

We Boast Best in the Cross When We Bear It

Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus.