Top 26 Grace Justification Quotes
#1. Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#2. Christ quickens none but the dead. Why do not the papists attain to this grace of justification? They never see themselves wholly dead, but join some life to the natural estate of man. Therefore Christ quickens them not.
Richard Sibbes
#3. 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
#4. No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
Thomas Merton
#5. People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#6. Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification ... faith and repentance themselves ... are components of the gospel, not the workings or fruits of the law.
Herman Bavinck
#7. Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.
William Carey
#8. You have FALLEN from Grace when you seek to be Justification by your own self effort (the Law). Gal 5:4 AMP
John Paul Warren
#9. The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
George Bernard Shaw
#11. It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God's law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust wholly in the merits of the promised Saviour, if they would be accepted of God.
Ellen G. White
#12. Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
Charles Spurgeon
#13. What if your only hope was to get ministry from someone who not only did not owe you any help - but who actually owed you the opposite? What if your only hope was to get free grace from someone who had every justification, based on your relationship to him, to trample you?
Timothy J. Keller
#15. He chose you. Why? That his glory and grace might be praised and magnified. Your salvation is to glorify God. Your regeneration is to glorify God. Your justification is to glorify God. Your sanctification is to glorify God. And one day your glorification will be the absorbance into the Glory of God.
Timothy Keller
#16. Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#17. 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
#18. The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.
Paul Tournier
#19. It is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.
Tom Wolfe
#20. Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.
Hilary Of Poitiers
#21. You are a winner when you have the courage to face the adversity and endure the difficulties.
Debasish Mridha
#22. I'm so glad to have Xbox as a franchise, especially at a time when gaming is becoming even more important - as a digital life category and in the mobile world.
Satya Nadella
#23. Sin is the transgression of the law, the death of Christ is the satisfaction of the law, justification is the verdict of the law, and sanctification is the believer's fulfillment of the law.
Ernest F. Kevan
#24. Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.
Douglas Wilson
#25. 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.
#26. Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.
Ellen G. White