Quotes about Grace

It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: "ye were bought at a price," and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon his Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.

Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl of great price to buy which the merchant will sell all his goods. It is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to stumble; it is the call of Jesus Christ at which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I'll stay.

God still answers prayers, God still performs miracles. Heaven is real.

God had chosen to keep me alive. Even in my worst moments of depression and self-pity, I never forgot that. Christy

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

The discipline of fasting releases the anointing, the favor, and the blessing of God in the life of a Christian.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.