 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. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| If grace does not make us differ from other men, it is not the grace which God gives His elect. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, 6.354. |
| It is a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: High Doctrine, June 3, 1860. |
| The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
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| A worker who has done a good job can boast or feel a sense of pride in the work he has accomplished. Yet all of that is contrary to grace or a gift. Grace rules out any sense of merit, and a gift does away with any sense of something earned or paid for. Author: T.A. McMahon |
| The difference between grace and works is the difference between worship and idolatry. The man inebriated with the thought that all he has is Yahweh's gift finds himself repeatedly on his knees, adoring, thanking, praising. But if we do not grasp grace we plummet into idolatry, for that is the inevitable corollary of self-sufficiency. Author: Dale Ralph Davis
Source: 1 Samuel, p. 318. |
| I have no stone to cast at the vilest of the vile. It is all of grace that I am made to differ! Author: William Tiptaft |
| 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? Author: William Tiptaft |
| We need restraining grace, as well as saving grace. Author: William Tiptaft |
| We must not limit the mighty grace of God. Author: D.L. Moody |
