Quotes about Grace
God, in glorifying the saints in heaven with eternal felicity, aims to satisfy his infinite grace or benevolence, by the bestowment of a good infinitely valuable, because eternal: and yet there never will come the moment, when it can be said, that now this infinitely valuable good has been actually bestowed.
— John Piper
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:8).
— John Piper
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
— John Piper
Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
— John Updike
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.
— John Wesley
Our main doctrines, which include all the rest, are three: That of repentance, of faith, and of holiness. The first of these we account, as it were, the porch of religion; the next, the door; the third, religion itself.
— John Wesley
How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?
— John Wesley
No outward practices will stand in the place of the new birth. Nothing under heaven will stand in its place.
— John Wesley
I pity those who can find no good at church. But how should they if prejudice come between, an effectual bar to the grace of God?
— John Wesley
none can trust in the merits of Christ, till he has utterly renounced his own.
— John Wesley
Let me daily grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
— John Wesley
May we all thus experience what it is to be not almost only, but altogether Christians! Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus, knowing we have peace with God through Jesus Christ, rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, and having the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the l holy Ghost given unto us!
— John Wesley