The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.
– Martin Luther
Grace
I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am.
– John Newton
Grace
God specializes in giving people a fresh start.
– Rick Warren
Grace
The future is as bright as the promises of God.
– William Carey
Grace | The Future
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
– John Piper
Grace | Power
My worth is what I am worth to God; and that is a marvelous great deal, for Christ died for me. Thus, incidentally, what gives to each of us His highest worth gives the same worth to everyone; in all that matters most are we equal.
– William Temple
Grace
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.
– Alister McGrath
Grace | Change
Grace is the free, undeserved goodness and favor of God to mankind.
– Matthew Henry
Grace
Grace is but Glory begun, and Glory is but Grace perfected.
– Jonathan Edwards
Grace
The Cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuited God’s wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.
– A. W. Tozer
The cross | Grace | God
When Christ delays to help His saints now, you think this is a great mystery, you cannot explain it; but Jesus sees the end from the beginning. Be still, and know that Christ is God.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Grace
One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as “those evil people” or “those poor people who need our help.” Nor must we search for signs of “loveworthiness.” Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
– Phillips Brooks
Grace
Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death.
– John Newton
Grace | Righteousness
Our quitting point is God’s beginning point.
– Woodrow Kroll
Grace
I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize the Lord is able to carry out His will, and His will is mine. It makes no matter where He places me, or how. That is rather for Him to consider than for me; for in the easiest positions He must give me His grace, and in the most difficult, His grace is sufficient.
– Hudson Taylor
Anxiety | Grace
I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why He should have looked upon me with special love.
– Charles Spurgeon
Doctrine | Grace
Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; ‘Tis grace has brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home.
– John Newton
Grace
And you know, when you’ve experienced grace and you feel like you’ve been forgiven, you’re a lot more forgiving of other people. You’re a lot more gracious to others.
– Rick Warren
Forgiveness | Grace
A man does not get grace till he comes down to the ground, till he sees he needs grace. When a man stoops to the dust and acknowledges that he needs mercy, then it is that the Lord will give him grace.
– Dwight L. Moody
Grace | Mercy
Grace is the very opposite of merit… Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.
– Harry Ironside
Grace
The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependent upon God, and know it.
– Alan Redpath
Grace
Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father’s wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.
– Martin Luther
Grace | Atonement | Righteousness
God doesn’t just give us grace; He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Grace | Jesus
I have no stone to cast at the vilest of the vile. It is all of grace that I am made to differ!
– William Tiptaft
Grace
Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.
– Jerry Bridges
Grace
A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.
– Charles Finney
Grace | Growth | Thankfulness
Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us out on any journey for which He does not equip us well.
– Alexander MacLaren
Grace | Service
Oh, how very kind and good my heavenly Father has been to me! I have no aches or pains, no rheumatism, and now in my ninety-third year I can do a day’s work at the orphan houses with as much ease and comfort to myself as ever.
– George Mueller
Grace | Gratitude | Comfort
The air which our body requires envelops us on every hand. The air which our souls need also envelops all of us at all times and on all sides. God is round about us in Christ on every hand, with his many sided and all-sufficient grace. All we need to do is to open our hearts.
– Ole Hallesby
Grace
Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God’s promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.
– Hannah Whitall Smith
Grace | Rest
We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.
– Vance Havner
Grace | Discipleship
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores – more than abundantly – what it takes away.
– Jim Elliot
Grace | Forgiveness | Restoration
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
– Karl Barth
Grace | Laughter
And as grace is free, so is it sure. Nothing can change, or alter, or turn away sovereign grace.
– Alexander Whyte
Grace
I have something which enables me to take it in the face of all the buffeting that comes my way, for I can always find resources that are adequate to take the knocks.
– Alan Redpath
Suffering | Grace
All the grace contained in [the Bible] is owing to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior; and, unless we consent to Him as our Lord we cannot expect any benefit by Him as our Savior.
– Matthew Henry
Grace | The Bible
Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us out on any journey for which He does not equip us well.
– Alexander MacLaren
Grace | Service
Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance–he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.
– Tim Keller
Christianity | Faith | Grace | Religion | Repentance
Let us seek the grace of a cheerful heart, an even temper, sweetness, gentleness, and brightness of mind, as walking in His light, and by His grace. Let us pray to Him to give us the spirit of ever-abundant, everspringing love, which overpowers and sweeps away the vexations of life by its own richness and strength, and which, above all things, unites us to Him who is the fountain and the centre of all mercy, loving-kindness, and joy.
– John Henry Newman
Grace | Cheerfulness | Gentleness
Grace grows best in winter.
– Samuel Rutherford
Suffering | Grace
Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
– Martin Luther
Sin | Grace | Freedom
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grace | Discipleship | Confession
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn’t ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
– Charles Stanley
Grace | The Future
Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God’s favor.
– Dwight L. Moody
Grace
Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.
– Thomas Adams
Sin | Grace
The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.
– Randy Alcorn
Grace | Sin | Materialism
Do we approach God from a beggar’s perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our loving Father, we need to ask Him to help us develop a healthy Father/child relationship.
– David Jeremiah
Grace | Prayer | Relationships
It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Grace
All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he works in them and by them, are in vain.
– John Wesley
Grace | The Holy Spirit
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
– Thomas Brooks
Grace | Struggles
If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, ‘Look at all I’ve done,’ or maybe ‘Look at all I’ve suffered.’ God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
– Tim Keller
Grace
Better to live in a hovel with a grain of grace, than to live in a palace without it; for what would the palace avail you in a thousand years?
– William Tiptaft
Grace | Wealth
I do not bid thee try the truth of thy grace by such a power as is peculiar to stronger grace, but by that power which will distinguish it from false grace.
– William Gurnall
Grace | Power
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
– C.S. Lewis
Grace | Tribulation
Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.
– George Herbert
Knowledge | Grace
In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as the Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.
– Alexander MacLaren
Grace
For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor riches deliver in time of need, nor a secret place to defend, if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.
– Thomas a Kempis
Grace | Comfort | Worldliness
In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as the Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.
– Alexander MacLaren
Grace
Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.
– William Gurnall
Grace | Comfort
In the meantime the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ work with thee, gentle reader, in all thy studious readings.
– John Foxe
Grace | Jesus | Reading
It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Grace | Death
God’s grace is His unmerited favor toward the wicked, unworthy sinners, by which He delivers them from condemnation and death.
– John MacArthur
Grace
To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law – the law of grace and love – but that one must do so. The first obligation of the Christian is to maintain their freedom from all superstitions, all blind taboos and religious formalities, indeed from all empty forms of legalism.
– Thomas Merton
Grace | Legalism | Choices
Alan Redpath is no different as a man from what he was as a youngster. And the sins that beset him then beset him now were it not for a constant, continual dependence upon the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God, and the power of the Holy Spirit to keep me.
– Alan Redpath
Grace | The Holy Spirit | Power
The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependent upon God, and know it.
– Alan Redpath
Grace
Christian, remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.
– Charles Spurgeon
Grace | Adversity
We believe, that the work of regeneration, conversion, sanctification and faith, is not an act of man’s free will and power, but of the mighty, efficacious and irresistible grace of God.
– Charles Spurgeon
Grace | Sanctification
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.
– John Newton
Grace
Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
– B.B. Warfield
Grace
I have something which enables me to take it in the face of all the buffeting that comes my way, for I can always find resources that are adequate to take the knocks.
– Alan Redpath
Suffering | Grace
Alan Redpath is no different as a man from what he was as a youngster. And the sins that beset him then beset him now were it not for a constant, continual dependence upon the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God, and the power of the Holy Spirit to keep me.
– Alan Redpath
Grace | The Holy Spirit | Power
Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, “Be good.” Jesus’ stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, “Help!”
– Phillips Brooks
Grace
Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God’s general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.
– Tim Keller
Grace | Culture
By grace I understand the favor of God, and also the gifts and working of his Spirit in us; as love, kindness, patience, obedience, mercifulness, despising of worldly things, peace, concord, and such like.
– William Tyndale
Grace | The Holy Spirit | Gifts
There is a center to the Bible and its message of grace. It is found in Jesus Christ crucified and resurrected. Grace must therefore be preached in a way that is centered and focused on Jesus Christ Himself, never offering the benefits of the gospel without the Benefactor Himself.
– Sinclair B. Ferguson
The Bible | Grace | The Cross
If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring.
– Richard Sibbes
Grace
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
– C.S. Lewis
Salvation | Grace
All Christian power springs from communion with God and from the indwelling of divine grace.
– James H. Aughey
Grace | Worship | Power
Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning; then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.
– Thomas Adams
Grace | Light
As a man, looking steadfastly on a dial, cannot perceive the shadow move at all, yet viewing it after a while, he shall perceive that it hath moved; so, in the hearing of the Word, but especially in the receiving of the Lord’s supper, a man may judge even his own faith, and other graces of God, to be little or nothing increased, neither can he perceive the motion of God’s Spirit in him at that time; yet by the fruits and effects thereof, he shall afterward perceive that God’s Spirit hath little by little wrought greater faith and other graces in him.
– William Gurnall
The Holy Spirit | Grace
And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.
– Alexander Whyte
Grace | Love
Behold therefore thy God at work, and promise thyself that what he is about will be an excellent piece.
– William Gurnall
GraceExcellence
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjack’s wares. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, without church discipline, communion without confession, absolution without personal confession.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Enemies | Grace
The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
– William Gurnall
Grace
Grace is of a stirring nature, and not such a dead thing, like an image, which you may lock up in a chest, and none shall know what God you worship. No, grace will show itself; it will walk with you into all places and companies; it will buy with you, and sell for you; it will have a hand in all your enterprises.
– William Gurnall
Grace
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
– Assorted Authors
Grace
As grace is first from God, so it is continually from him, as much as light is all day long from the sun, as well as at first dawn or at sun-rising.
– Jonathan Edwards
Grace
And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.
– Alexander Whyte
GraceLove
The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.
– Charles Spurgeon
Grace | Faith
Grace is not such a beggarly visitant, as will not pay its own way. When the best of beings is adored, the best of blessings are enjoyed.
– William Secker
Grace
If a Christian remains in a carnal condition long after experiencing new birth, he hinders God’s salvation from realizing its full potential and manifestation. Only when he is growing in grace, constantly governed by the spirit, can salvation be wrought in him.
– Watchman Nee
Christians | Grace | Carnality
The whole Christian life is a life in which the further a person progresses, the more he has to depend directly on God. The more we progress, the less we are self-sufficient. The more we progress, the poorer we get so that the man who has progressed most, is totally poor – he has to depend directly on God. He’s got nothing left in himself.
– Thomas Merton
Life | Grace
Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
– Watchman Nee
Grace
Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to ‘ask, seek, knock’ in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and recognize that God’s grace had sought them out, breaking them open to new realities.
– Tim Keller
Christianity | Faith | God | Grace | Repentance
There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them.
– James H. Aughey
Grace
The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.
– B.B. Warfield
Grace
Lord, make me happy enough in the grace of Jesus to avoid being proud, cold, scared, and hooked.
– Tim Keller
Grace | Happiness
When God says “nothing is too hard,” He means “nothing”.
– Woodrow Kroll
Grace
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, “You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself.” My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.
– Charles Spurgeon
Grace
That’s what Jesus did. The gulf between God and human beings is far greater than the distance between humans and birds, yet His grace spanned the great divide.
– David Jeremiah
Grace