Quotes about Grace

He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

For what is more consonant with faith than to recognize that we are naked of all virtue, in order to be clothed by God? That we are empty of all good, to be filled by him? That we are slaves of sin, to be freed by him? Blind, to be illumined by him? Lame, to be made straight by him? Weak, to be sustained by him? To take away from us all occasion for glorying, that he alone may stand forth gloriously and we glory in him [cf. I Cor. 1:31; II Cor. 10:17]?

Would the Lord have dressed the flowers with a beauty that runs freely to meet our eyes if it were wrong to be moved by such beauty? Would He have endowed them with so sweet a fragrance that flows freely into our nostrils if it were wrong to be moved by the pleasantness of such fragrance?

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned

You see how every thing is denied to free will, for the very purpose of leaving no room for merit. And yet, as the beneficence and liberality of God are manifold and inexhaustible, the grace which he bestows upon us, inasmuch as he makes it our own, he recompenses as if the virtuous acts were our own.

Not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

If we have Jesus Christ with us, we shall come upon nothing so accursed that he will not turn it into a blessing; nothing.

When He orders you to forgive that man for whatever sin he has committed against you, He calls you to do so not because that man deserves it, but because God Himself has forgiven you (Luke 17:3—4).

Give what is absolutely free, because he sees nothing in us that can be a ground of salvation.

Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.

Let this, then, be a standing truth, that the whole strength of the godly consists in the grace of God, according to the words of the prophet, "I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you;