GRACE-NECESSARY
A man can no
more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough for the
next six months, or take sufficient air into his lungs at one time to sustain
life for a week. We must draw upon God's boundless store of grace from day to
day, as we need it.
Quoted in: A Place of Quiet Rest by
Nance Leigh DeMoss, Moody, 2000, p. 93.
Advance in
the Christian life comes not by the work of the Holy Spirit alone, nor by our
work alone, but by our responding to and cooperating with the grace the Holy
Spirit initiates and sustains.
Donald Whitney
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life,
1991, p. 243, Used by permission of NavPress – www.navpress.com, All
rights reserved. For more information
please see the website www.BibicalSpirituality.org.
It is a
greater work of God to bring men to grace, than being in the state of grace, to
bring them to glory; because sin is far more distant from grace than grace is
from glory.
John Trapp
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 130.
Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond
the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are
beyond the need of God's grace.
Author Unknown
It is not
only by grace alone that we become God's people but by grace alone we remain
His people.
Dale Ralph Davis
1 Samuel, Christian Focus Publications, 1988,
p. 129.
While
the Law defines righteousness, only grace delivers it. The Law was never
intended to be a means of obtaining grace; it was given to demonstrate to men
that grace was desperately needed.
Bob Deffinbaugh
The Grace of God, Part I – Ephesians 1:5-12;
2:1-10, www.bible.org, Copyright
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