Inspirational Quotes on Grace

“The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.”

“Thou didst seek us when we sought Thee not; didst seek us indeed that we might seek Thee.”

“And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that "as you reap, so will you sow" stuff. Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity.”

“I am a friend to God, a sworn enemy of the saccharine and a believer in grace over karma.”

“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.”

“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?”

“The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.”

“A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.”

“The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.”

“Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of 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.”

“When Andrew went to find his brother, he little imagined how eminent Simon would become. You may be very deficient in talent yourself, and yet you may be the means of drawing to Christ one who shall become eminent in grace and service.”

“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.”

“Christian, remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.”

“Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!”

“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 irresistable grace of God.”

“Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the 'sensual pleasures of Egypt!' Think of how the Lord's grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles.”

“Born, as all of us are by nature, an Arminian, I still believed the old things I had heard continually from the pulpit, and did not see the grace of God. When I was coming to Christ, I thought I was doing it all myself, and though I sought the Lord earnestly, I had no idea the Lord was seeking me.”

“Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in blessed bonds of grace.”

“Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.”