Quotes about Grace

God loves too much to be willing to forsake his glorious kingdom of grace for your self-absorbed little kingdom of one.

It really does take grace to know how much you need grace.

The world of envy no more mixes with the world of grace than oil does with water.

Marriage is meant to expose your self-focus and self-reliance. It is meant to convince you that you are needier than you thought you were and to encourage you that God's grace has more power to transform than you thought it did. Marriage is meant to teach you how to give, love, serve, forgive, support, encourage, and wait. Think

Hope for sexual sanity is found only in one place: at the foot of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you seek satisfaction, satisfaction will escape your grasp. But if you seek God, rest in his presence and grace, and put your heart in his most capable hands, he will satisfy your heart as nothing else can. You were made for him. Your heart was designed to be controlled by worship of him. Your inner security is meant to come from rest in him. Your sense of well-being is intended to come from a reliance on his wisdom, power, and love.

Your biggest need (and mine) is a fully restored relationship with God. We

The way to begin to celebrate the grace that God so freely gives you every day is by admitting how much you need it.

It is only when we really do believe that life is bigger than us, that there is something more important than our wants, needs, and feelings, and that we have been given life and breath for the purposes, plans, and praise of another, that we will be willing to forgive.

Only powerful, rescuing grace can take you from "Let me do what I want to do" to "Guard me against the temptation to do what you know is best for me not to do.

It is humbling, but it is important to remember that it is only ever the sin inside us that hooks us to the sin outside of us. So what we need most is not a change of location or relationship, but a fundamental rescue of heart, and that is exactly what God's grace in the person of the Holy Spirit provides for us.

Here's what you need to understand: your faith is not your hope; his zealous grace is the only source of hope for fickle-faith sinners.