 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 |
| 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. |
| God is able to cause all things people do to us, even the bad things, to work together for our good (Rom. 8:28). That isn't to say that all things are good, but that God can orchestrate the evil into a symphony of glory. Author: Sam Storms
Source: One Thing |
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| 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. Author: Sam Storms
Source: The Grandeur of God, Baker Book House, 1984, p. 125. |
| Grace does not demonize our desires nor destroy them nor lead us to deny them. Grace is the work of the Holy Spirit in transforming our desires so that knowing Jesus becomes sweeter than illicit sex, sweeter than money and what it can buy, sweeter than every fruitless joy. Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else! Author: Sam Storms
Source: One Thing |
| The bread and wine exist not simply to stir cognitive remembrance but to light a fire of unquenchable longing for the Savior whose body and blood they symbolize. These visible signs are also a means of grace by which the Spirit excites and intensifies our thirst for what Jesus alone can offer. So come to the eucharist hungry and feast on the Son of God. Author: Sam Storms
Source: One Thing |
| The first and possibly most fundamental characteristic of divine grace is that it presupposes sin and guilt. Grace has meaning only when men are seen as fallen, unworthy of salvation, and liable to eternal wrath... Grace does not contemplate sinners merely as undeserving but as ill-deserving... It is not simply that we do not deserve grace; we do deserve hell. Author: Sam Storms
Source: The Grandeur of God, Baker Book House, 1984, p. 124. |
| God's grace is His unmerited favor toward the wicked, unworthy sinners, by which He delivers them from condemnation and death. Author: John MacArthur
Source: Titus, p. 107. |
| Grace does not grant permission to live in the flesh; it supplies power to live in the Spirit. Author: John MacArthur
Source: The Gospel According to Jesus |
