There is another kind of divine working that may occur without our being aware of it, or at least without our recognizing it for what it is. This is that wondrous operation of God known in theology as prevenient grace.
—AW Tozer
Cast yourselves on his undeserved mercy; he is full of love, and will not spurn you: surrender yourselves into his hands, and solemnly resolve, through his grace, to dedicate henceforth all your faculties and powers to his service.
—William Wilberforce
By the grace of God, know thyself. Know and feel that thou wast shapen in wickedness, and in sin did thy mother conceive thee; and that thou thyself hast been heaping sin upon sin, ever since thou couldst discern good from evil.
—John Wesley
All the benefits that Christ by his Spirit gives to the church and to every believer can be summarized under one word: grace (John 1:16). But this one word implies a wealth of blessings.
—Herman Bavinck
In short, Christ and all His benefits, the love of the Father, and the grace of the Son, become our portion only in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
—Herman Bavinck
A new and more powerful proclamation of the law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour… A low view of law always brings legalism into religion; a high view of law makes man a seeker after grace. Pray that the high view may prevail.
—J. Gresham Machen
A new and more powerful proclamation of the law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour… A low view of law always brings legalism into religion; a high view of law makes man a seeker after grace. Pray that the high view may prevail.
—J. Gresham Machen
“Every minute that the Chrsitian lives will be a minute of grace.”
“By grace you are saved.
What glad tidings for the undeserving.”
— Charles Spurgeon
While I continue in the body, I shall never be perfect. But O what room is there for growth in grace, what space for advancement.
—William Wilberforce
This is the solution of what to a man of the world might seem a strange paradox, that in proportion as the Christian grows in grace, he grows also in humility.
—William Wilberforce
“We pray with boldness, but the boldness which springs from grace, not pride.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Our one instrument as fishers for Christ is the gospel of the grace of God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Cast yourselves on his undeserved mercy; he is full of love, and will not spurn you: surrender yourselves into his hands, and solemnly resolve, through his grace, to dedicate henceforth all your faculties and powers to his service.
—William Wilberforce
Cast away every thing from you that favours of the lust of the eye and pride of life. Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and let your conversation always be seasoned with grace.
—George Whitefield
The Lord, on the behalf of Christ, for his sake, because it is purchased and procured by him for us, bestows faith, and (by same rule) all grace upon us.
—John Owen
“He cannot wilfully offend against such love; on the contrary, he feels himself bound to obey God in return for such unsearchable grace; and thus by a sense of love doth God write his law upon the hearts of his people.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“A sense of pardon, of adoption, and of God’s sweet favour both in providence and in grace, must sanctify man.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Married life is not all sugar,
but grace in the heart will keep away most of the sours.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Faith is a grace that gives God the glory of his sufficiency and faithfulness.
—Jonathan Edwards
“The law is never honoured by fallen man till he comes from under its condemning rule, and walks by faith, and lives under the covenant of grace.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Salvation by grace, through faith in Jesus, is no dream, no fiction, let sceptics say what they will.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Grace makes no man proud.”
— Charles Spurgeon
A low view of law brings legalism into religion; a high view of law makes man a seeker after grace. Pray that the high view may prevail.
—J. Gresham Machen
Courage is grace under pressure.
—Ernest Hemingway
“One of the greatest works of grace in the heart is to humble our pride.”
— Charles Spurgeon
God has by his preventing grace kept me from publicly disgracing the Christian profession. O my soul, praise the Lord, and forget not all his mercies.
—William Wilberforce
“Shall I not tell to others what the grace of God has done for me? Shall I not lay hold of every poor sinner’s hand, and say, Look you to Christ, and you also shall be saved, even as I was?”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Oh, to preach Christ in a Christly way, — to tell of mercy in the spirit of mercy, and to preach grace in a truly gracious way!”
– Charles Spurgeon
Talk to them, oh talk to them, even until midnight, of the riches of his all-sufficient grace.
—George Whitefield