Quotes about Grace

I know it sounds crazy, but as soon as Christians start telling non-Christians how to live their lives, we've lost the Christian faith.

God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us. Now

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us.

Creation is grace: a statement at which we should like best to pause in reverence, fear and gratitude. God does not grudge the existence of the reality distinct from Himself; He does not grudge it its own reality, nature and freedom.

God's love toward us commends itself in this, that Christ died for us while we were still weak, still sinners, still godless, still enemies. It has therefore not waited for us, but has come to meet us and gone before us.

He reconciles them with God through His death. That means that in His own death He makes their peace with God--before they themselves have decided for this peace and quite apart from that decision. In believing, they are only conforming to the decision about them that has already been made in Him.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.