Sovereign Grace Quotes

#1. The one God has chosen unconditionally he keeps invincibly. Being and staying a believer is decisively of sovereign grace.

John Piper

#2. This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this "glorious grace" that will be praised for all eternity.

John Piper

#3. Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God.

John Piper

#4. They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

Jonathan Edwards

#5. In this world's endless time and boundless space One may be born at last to match my sovereign grace.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace; our work as His disciples is to disciple lives until they are wholly yielded to God.

Oswald Chambers

#7. Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions.

Kevin DeYoung

#9. No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

Jonathan Edwards

#11. We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us ... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

J.I. Packer

#12. The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

John Piper

#13. I find these shows very touching sometimes.

Robert Stack

#14. When the Sovereign pushed against me, I bent like Gold should, with grace, with dignity. But now she cuts at me, and beneath the grace, beneath the aplomb, her knife will strike iron. We make for Mars, and for war.

Pierce Brown

#15. Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.

Timothy Keller

#16. If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one might conclude that this is part of God's sovereign justice. His grace, however, is that He Himself will always be there for you, no matter what.

Criss Jami

#17. Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.

B. B. Warfield

#18. Grace, then, is grace,
that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting.

Alexander Whyte

#19. God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.

R. Kent Hughes

#20. No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.

R.C. Sproul

#21. INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.

Ambrose Bierce

#22. The very center and core of the whole Bible is the doctrine of the grace of God - the grace of God which depends not one whit upon anything that is in man, but is absolutely undeserved, resistless and sovereign. J. Gresham Machen

Justin S. Holcomb

#23. In Jesus' Name eternal grace is sovereign in me and I am sovereign in life now

Cessza Gumede

#24. Yeah, Vi, unless Armageddon hit while i was fuckin' you this morning and we missed it, I'm thinkin' grocery stores still exist and they're all still stocked.

Kristen Ashley

#25. The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

Charles Spurgeon

#26. The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Sigmund Freud

#27. When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

Andy Dick

#28. Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.

Robin McKinley