Top 100 By Grace Quotes
#1. It is no blasphemy to say that every man creates the God creating him. We are facets of a work whose finished form we cannot imagine, though our imaginations, aided by grace, are the means - or at least one means - of its completion.
Christian Wiman
#2. When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace
R.C. Sproul
#3. The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Michel Quoist
#4. The knowledge of the purpose of the success that you receive by grace in every area will keep us from pride and the love of money
Sunday Adelaja
#5. To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
Martin Luther
#6. The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#7. Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today.
Charlton Heston
#9. After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.
John Nelson Darby
#10. With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.
P.L. Travers
#12. My 'Moment of TRU' - I live, I love, I let be. I grind, I do my own thing, I stay in my own lane. Ain' got no worries because God is my source. I'm not perfect, but by grace I get better with every day God gives me.
LaNina King
#13. Once again was it proved that the designs of Providence are impenetrable and that the sinner, climbing out of the pit of his filthiness, may feel himself touched by grace.
Gabriel Chevallier
#14. There stirred behind her face a sense of life and purpose and mirth and caring that made her seem to be in motion even as she was still. There was a kind of rhythm to her, even in motionless repose. I said, "Energy contained by grace, maybe.
Robert B. Parker
#15. There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.
John Bunyan
#16. We are all foolish sinners saved only by grace & we can all use a little guidance sometimes.
Lesley Sears
#17. There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation.
Maximus The Confessor
#18. To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
Frederick Buechner
#19. God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.
R.C. Sproul
#20. (Interested in being a better writer? Go buy yourself a copy of The Collected Stories by Grace Paley.) The
Ann Patchett
#21. Every day of our Christian experience should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. We are not only saved by grace, but we also live by grace every day.
Jerry Bridges
#22. We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
Randall Terry
#23. EPH2.5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) EPH2.6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Anonymous
#24. Teaching unsupported by grace may enter our ears, but it never reaches the heart. When God's grace does touch our innermost minds to bring understanding, then his word, which is received by the ear, can sink deep into the heart.
Isidore Of Seville
#25. Grace is the first and last moving cause of salvation; and faith, essential as it is, is only an important part of the machinery which grace employs. We are saved 'through faith,' but salvation is 'by grace'.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#26. A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon
#27. Surrender happens by Grace. All we're doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
Krishna Das
#28. In Jesus the performance pendulum stops - both the pride of success and the despair of failure are absorbed by grace.
Melissa B. Kruger
#29. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.
Terry Tempest Williams
#30. Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all
John Calvin
#31. That so-called faith in Christ which professes to release men from the obligation of obedience to God, is not faith, but presumption. "By grace are ye saved through faith." But "faith, if it hath not works, is dead." Ephesians 2:8; James 2:17.
Ellen G. White
#32. Doesn't it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn't it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don't feel very precious?
Bill Johnson
#33. For if "Free-will" cannot of itself will good, but wills good by grace alone, (for we are speaking of "Free-will" apart from grace and inquiring into the power which properly belongs to each) who does not see, that that good will, merit, and reward, belong to grace alone.
Martin Luther
#35. Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to.
Laurie Seidler
#36. So you see that the eye of the intellect has received supernatural light, infused by grace, by which the doctors and saints knew light in darkness, and of darkness made light.
Catherine Of Siena
#37. Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.
Maximus The Confessor
#38. In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.
Tullian Tchividjian
#39. Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.
Max Stirner
#40. Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all ... not by force, but by grace.
Vivian Amis
#41. EPH2.8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: EPH2.9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Anonymous
#42. If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#43. The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.
George Muller
#44. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast.
Anonymous
#45. Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.
Karl Barth
#46. God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely.
Joyce Meyer
#47. When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.
Charles Spurgeon
#48. Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#49. In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
Johannes Tauler
#50. Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality."
Excerpt from novel You Can't Escape Love by Grace Willows
Grace Willows
#51. We are not saying that if you believe in evolution that you can't be a Christian, not at all. Because the Bible says that by grace you are saved. You don't save yourself. It is by confessing the Lord Jesus and that he was rose from the dead that you are saved.
Ken Ham
#52. At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#53. We are
debtors who cannot pay, yet we have been released from the threat of debtors' prison. It is an insult to God for us to withhold forgiveness and grace from those who ask us, while claiming to be forgiven and saved by grace ourselves.
R.C. Sproul
#54. Our humbling experience of sin is a mark of maturity. To be humbled by sin is to be marked by grace. Christian holiness is not the eradication of the sin nature, at least not on this side of eternity.
Tony Reinke
#56. If he gives you the grace to make you believe, he will give you the grace to live a holy life afterward." (Sermon, "Justification by Grace")
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#57. The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence - it is unshakeable
Thomas Merton
#58. I work either way, you see - assisted or unassisted - because that is what you must do in order to live a fully creative life. I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether I am touched by grace or not, I thank creativity for allowing me to engage with it at all.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#61. On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.
Timothy Keller
#62. God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.
Dwight L. Moody
#63. Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.
George Herbert
#64. My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, "Oh, my. I was so mistaken." The world isn't what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.
Byron Katie
#65. None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.
J.B. McGee
#66. It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.
Blaise Pascal
#67. I came to know Christ when I was 13 years old at a youth camp I attended. I may not have known much about Him, but I knew I was saved by grace and that, because of the cross, I had a hope like no other. I cannot imagine life without Him.
Bart Millard
#69. My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.
Norman Maclean
#70. But what I have come to see is that God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture. We do not have to be bright, or pure, or filled with faith, or anything. That is what grace means, and not only are we saved by grace, we live by it as well. And we pray by it.
Richard J. Foster
#71. It strikes me that it's always religious people who are most surprised by grace.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#72. To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.
Brennan Manning
#73. But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
William Wordsworth
#74. I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, "Praise the Lord." You were broken, but not by bullets and bombs. You were broken by grace.
N.D. Wilson
#75. So two things, on our part, are required to receive God's saving grace: repentance from sin and faith in God Who saves us (by grace, in Christ). Both are free choices, and both are necessary to allow grace to enter our souls.
Peter Kreeft
#76. Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
John Calvin
#77. We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
Timothy Keller
#78. Human sin and God's grace are the two poles of Lutheran spirituality. To be sure, these are intrinsic to all of Christianity, but in Lutheranism they are both heightened. They are resolved in the principle by which, it is said, the church stands or falls: justification by grace through faith.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#79. We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!
Steve Camp
#82. We are all sinners who have been saved by Grace. We have not been saved from sinning, but we have been redeemed despite it".
~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#83. Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.
Charles Spurgeon
#84. We are saved gratis, by grace. We do nothing and we deserve nothing; it is all, absolutely and without qualification, one huge, hilarious gift.
Robert Farrar Capon
#85. To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
Blaise Pascal
#86. For a group of people supposedly saved by grace, loved unconditionally, and secure in our relationship with Christ, we certainly carry a lot of guilt and baggage in our relationship with God.
Will Davis Jr.
#88. By grace (that is to say, by favor) we are plucked out of Adam, the ground of all evil, and grafted in Christ, the root of all goodness.28 You are chosen for Christ's sake to the inheritance of eternal life.29
Steven J. Lawson
#89. Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are - you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.
Oswald Chambers
#90. Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.
John Newton
#91. The gospel is life giving, because it generates changes that are received only by grace through faith. This foundational truth, however, gets bypassed, obscured, and forgotten, because, as Martin Luther noted, religion forms the default mode of the human heart.
J.D. Greear
#93. Life challenges are real. You can overcome each challenge by grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#94. Many new believers stay immature because they never progress beyond the revelation that they are sinners saved by grace.
Bill Johnson
#95. We are all rocks fallen away from the same great mountain, sometimes finding our way back home by grace. There's no use in throwing stones because, no matter what shape they may take, even they are just another piece of us.
Cristen Rodgers
#96. Jesus was treated on the cross as if He lived our life, so by grace we could be treated as if we lived His life. Hallelujah what a Savior!
Steve Camp
#97. Knowing we're saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person.
Beth Moore
#98. It is only by grace and hope in great God of wonders, we receive strength and vitality for everyday life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#99. The Big Lie in the church today is that you are nothing more than a sinner saved by grace.
John Eldredge
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