Explore the wonderful quotes under this tag
Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.
Sep 10, 2025
Yet, after all, faith is not our righteousness. It is accounted to us in order to righteousness (Rom 4:5, GREEK), but not as righteousness; for in that case it would be a work like any other doing of man, and as such would be incompatible with the righteousness of the Son of God; the righteousness which is by faith. Faith connects us with the righteousness, and is therefore totally distinct from it. To confound the one with the other is to subvert the whole gospel of the grace of God. Our act of faith must ever be a separate thing from that which we believe.
Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he is not to worry himself into premature senility.
There were few people, perhaps, more passionately fond of travelling, and seeing fresh places, and new scenes, than myself; but now, since, by the grace of God, I have seen beauty in the Lord Jesus, I have lost my taste for these things.
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.
The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
We walk upon the grace of god. Nothing else exists except that.
The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.
The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.
None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.
The grace of God is like insurance. It will help you in your time of need without any limit.
Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
The grace of God is the thing that is needful. One should pray for the grace of God.
Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.
And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
By the grace of God I am what I am
Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.
Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues; nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.
Get honest with God, and your focus will shift from just seeing your problems - no matter how overwhelming they seem - to the grace of God.
Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.
We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.
The Bible makes it really clear that if I am not receptive to the grace of God I am headed toward wrath.
Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ. As long as he remains in the flesh, unregenerate, he will never choose Christ. He cannot choose Christ precisely because he cannot act against his own will. His fall is so great that only the effectual grace of God working in his heart can bring him to faith.
The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's grace is ridiculously inclusive. Apparently God doesn't care who He loves. He is not very careful about the people He calls His friends or the people He calls His church.
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.
Ye [Anabaptists] be proud contemners of the free grace of God offered to man in Christ Jesus. For with the Pelagians and Papists ye are become teachers of free will, and defenders of your own righteousness
The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.
We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom; an authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.
I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God.
I once was lost, but now am found.
Grace is power, not just pardon.
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.
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.
I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.
Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.