Grace quotes - Grace experienced
- The greatest expression of God's grace in a person's life is not its demonstration toward others, but its response to God and His cause. Scott Hafemann
- Don’t buy the lie that cultivating condemnation and wallowing in your shame is somehow pleasing to God, or that a constant, low-grade guilt will somehow promote holiness and spiritual maturity. It’s just the opposite! God is glorified when we believe with all our hearts that those who trust in Christ can never be condemned. It’s only when we receive his free gift of grace and live in the good of total forgiveness that we’re able to turn from old, sinful ways of living and walk in grace-motivated obedience. C.J. Mahaney
- The Scripture is both the breeder and feeder of grace. How is the convert born, but by “the word of truth”? (James 1:18). How doth he grow, but by “the sincere milk of the Word.”? (I Peter 2:2). Thomas Watson
- Grace comes not to take away a man’s affections, but to take them up. William Fenner
- We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all. C.H. Spurgeon
- The higher a man is in grace. The lower he will be in his own esteem. C.H. Spurgeon
- Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace. C.H. Spurgeon
- To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ. Jerry Bridges
- The way to open our hearts to others is by receiving afresh the grace of God and appreciating what it means: seeing our own need of Christ; coming to receive His mercy; sensing how undeserved His love for us is; remembering how He has also opened His heart to those whose hearts are closed against us. Then we will see that the heart which is too narrow to receive a fellow Christian is too narrow to enthrone the Lord Jesus Christ. But the heart that is opened to receive the grace of Christ will learn to welcome all those whom Christ Himself has welcomed. Sinclair B. Ferguson
- The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
- The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace. J.C. Ryle
- So (God) supplies perfectly measured grace to meet the needs of the godly. For daily needs there is daily grace; for sudden needs, sudden grace; for overwhelming need, overwhelming grace. God’s grace is given wonderfully, but not wastefully; freely but not foolishly; bountifully but not blindly. John Blanchard
- Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit… Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to withdraw it in the presence of human demerit. C. Samuel Storms
- 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
- Motion is the most perfect discoverer of life. He that can stir his limbs, is surely not dead. The feet of the soul are the affections. Hast thou not found in thyself a hate and detestation of that sin whereinto thou hast been miscarried? Hast thou not found in thyself a true grief of heart, for thy wretched indisposition to all good things? Without a true life of grace, these things could never have been. Joseph Hall
- It is a sure mark of grace to desire more. Robert Murray M’Cheyne
- All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows. Phillip Henry
- Resolved, to strive to my utmost every week to be brought higher in religion, and to a higher exercise of grace, than I was the week before. Jonathan Edwards Resolution Number 30