Quotes about Grace

Oftentimes the reason we don't forgive is because what the other person did was wrong. They were clearly at fault. But when you forgive, you're not excusing their behavior. You're not lessening the offense; you're simply getting the poison out of you. You have to forgive so you can be free.

Father in heaven, thank You that I can come boldly before You, knowing that as Your child this is the right place for me to be. Thank You that I don't have to earn Your favor or be good enough to come into Your presence. I declare that I am coming boldly to pray bold prayers and to dream bold dreams. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

When we are saved by grace, we do not leave behind the commandments of God. On the contrary, we find the power to keep them in love.

First, the Puritans showed a profound dependence upon the Holy Spirit in everything they said and did. They felt keenly their inability to bring anyone to Christ as well as the magnitude of conversion.

Thus the covenant of grace forms the heart of salvation itself. Perkins wrote, "We are to know God, not as he is in himself, but as he hath revealed himself unto us in the covenant of grace; and therefore we must acknowledge the Father to be our Father, the Son to be our Redeemer, the holy Ghost to be our comforter, and seek to grow in the knowledge and experience of this.

In damnation, the sinner receives what he deserves; in salvation, the saved sinner receives what he does not deserve. Judgment is all of merit; salvation is all of grace.

Conviction—or the killing work of the law—is the way that leads to Christ, not a condition for receiving Christ.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.