Quotes about Grace

It is a beastly business when people start eating without prayer, and when they are full, they run out without as much as mentioning God's name.

Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

There would be no communion between him and us if he did not first come to us with his grace.

Indeed, the holiest among us know they stand by God's grace and not by their own virtues. Yet they would nevertheless become too confident in their own courage and constancy if they weren't led to a more intimate knowledge of themselves by the testing of the cross.

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

First, since by God's command all the saints daily ask for their sins to be forgiven (Matt.6:12), they confess themselves sinners. They do not ask in vain, for the Lord Jesus never bade us ask for something which he would not give us.

God does not measure the precepts of his law by human strength, but, after ordering what is right, freely bestows on his elect the power of fulfilling it.

Faithful is the Lord, who has made himself our debtor, not by receiving any thing from us, but by promising us all things," (August. in Ps. 32, 109, et alibi).

Christ, therefore, died for our sins, in order to redeem or separate us from the world.

Men are justified by believing, not by what they do. It is by faith they obtain grace: and grace cannot be earned as a payment for works.

Ps. 126:1). God has done a stupendous and incredible work in us who bear Christ's name.

For if by natural instinct or wisdom we could bring ourselves back to the road and escape from error, we would have no need for Christ.