The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.
My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.
Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.
Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.
Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.
Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.
My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.
The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.
The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.
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