Quotes about Grace

I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.

The problem with self-righteousness is that it seems almost impossible to recognize in ourselves. We will own up to almost any other sin, but not the sin of self-righteousness. When we have this attitude, though, we deprive ourselves of the joy of living in the grace of God. Because, you see, grace is only for sinners.

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

Our good works are not truly good unless they're motivated by a love for God and a desire to glorify Him. But we cannot have such a Godward motivation if we think we must earn God's favor by our obedience or if we fear we may forfeit His favor by disobedience. Such a works-oriented motivation is essentially self-serving, prompted more by what we think we gain or lose than by a grateful response to the grace He has already given us through Jesus Christ.

The converse truth is that love gives validity to my actions and makes them acceptable to God.

The only safe evidence that we are in Christ is a holy life.

The Scriptures never indicate that God is frustrated to any degree by our failure to act as we should.

We cannot deal with the power of sin unless we have first dealt with its guilt. And we deal with it at the cross.

When we discover we are weak in ourselves, we find we are strong in Christ.

To see God solely as love is to overlook the beauty and the purpose of the cross.

My own experience suggests that Satan attacks us far more in the area of God's love than either His sovereignty or His wisdom.