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There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

Grace is not a theology. It is not a subject matter. It is not a doctrine. It is a person, and his name is Jesus. That's the reason the Lord wants you to receive the abundance of grace, for to have the abundance of grace is to have the abundance of Jesus.

No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God. God has certain holy and righteous demands which he places upon me: that is law. Now if law means that God requires something of me for their fulfillment, then deliverance from law means he no longer requires that from me, but himself provides it.

When I hear Christians say, "I don't do this, and I don't do that, and I am following a set of rules," I immediately recognize that they know very little about the grace of God. They are trying to live the Christian life in their own strength. But Paul says, "Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus."

Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.

I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

Grace grows best in winter.

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.