Quotes about Grace

If you shall be paid what you deserve, you must be punished. What then happens? God has not rendered you the punishment you deserve, but bestows undeserved grace. If you would be estranged from grace, boast of your own merits." Again: "Of yourself you are nothing. Sins are your own, but merits are God's. You deserve punishment, and when the reward comes he will crown his own gifts, not your merits.

Whence follows the plain conclusion, that if all men were elected, no man would perish.

God sometimes bestows his bounty more   profusely, and, at other times, more sparingly, upon his children,   according as he sees it to be most for their good;

he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.

we must realize that death was not a pleasure or a game for Christ, and that he suffered excruciation to the utmost for our sakes.

By the word letter Paul means preaching which is external and does not reach the heart; by Spirit he means teaching which is alive, which works mightily in the souls of men by the grace of the Spirit. Letter

Accordingly, we shall find   angels and men to be dry, heaven to be empty, the earth to be   unproductive, and, in short, all things to be of no value, if we wish   to be partakers of the gifts of God in any other way than through   Christ.

Therefore, men get nothing from the law but condemnation, for in the law God demands his due, but does not confer the power to pay it properly. The

Because of the great distance between us and his heavenly glory, he himself came down to us through the Word. This

Faith was a gift of God whose main function was to create in man a certain knowledge of God's goodness toward us. The

It is the Spirit of God alone who opens the gate of heaven to the elect. Further

The only reason for security is that our salvation is in God's hand. Our