All of Grace

It lies not in man's right nor in man's power truly to justify the guilty. This is a miracle reserved for the Lord alone.

I, who am altogether undeserving, am treated as if I had been deserving.

I have no gospel to preach to the self-righteous, no, not a word of it. Jesus Christ himself came not to call the righteous, and I am not going to do what He did not do.

He comes, not because we are just, but to make us so: he justifieth the ungodly.

Faith exists in different persons in various degrees, according to the amount of their knowledge or growth in grace.

The Lord knows right well that you cannot change your own heart, and cannot cleanse your own nature; but He also knows that He can do both.

If you will have Jesus, He has you already.

salvation is all of grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair.

Book-reading is of small value unless the truths which pass before the mind are grasped, appropriated, and carried out to their practical issues.

There is more in the atonement by way of merit, than there is in all human sin by way of demerit.

Faith is believing that Christ is what He is said to be, and that He will do what He has promised to do, and then to expect this of Him.

Jesus did not die for our righteousness, but He died for our sins. He did not come to save us because we were worth the saving, but because we were utterly worthless, ruined, and undone.

The doctrine of the atonement is to my mind one of the surest proofs of the divine inspiration of Holy Scripture. Who would or could have thought of the just Ruler dying for the unjust rebel? This is no teaching of human…

Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hangs upon the cross! This is the greatest sight you will ever see. Son of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the j…

Remember Martin Luther's way of cutting the devil's head off with his own sword. Oh, said the devil to Martin Luther, you are a sinner. Yes, said Luther, Christ died to save sinners. Thus he smote him with his own sword.…

It is God that justifieth'that justifieth the ungodly; He is not ashamed of doing it, nor are we of preaching it.

Grace is the first and last moving cause of salvation; and faith, essential as it is, is only an important part of the machinery which grace employs. We are saved 'through faith,' but salvation is 'by grace'.

It is a blessing for us that, as sin lives, and the flesh lives, and the devil lives, so Jesus lives. It is also a blessing that, whatever strength these may have to ruin us, Jesus has still greater power to save us.

One of these days you who are now a 'babe' in Christ shall be a 'father' in the church. Hope for this great thing; but hope for it as a gift of grace, and not as the wages of work, or as the product of your own energy.

No dependence can be placed upon our natural qualities, or our spiritual attainments; but God abideth faithful. He is faithful in His love; He knows no variableness, neither shadow of turning. He is faithful to His purpo…

If a man were to sow a field, he could not excuse his neglect by saying that it would be useless to sow unless God caused the seed to grow. He would not be justified in neglecting tillage because the secret energy of God…

If you yield yourself up to His divine working, the Lord will alter your nature; He will subdue the old nature, and breathe new life into you. Put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and He will take the stony heart out…

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be got over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself…

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture. It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship, but it will never do to lose the friendship of God…

Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.

It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be co…

Do not sit down and try to pump up repentance from the dry well of a corrupt nature. It is contrary to the laws of your mind to suppose that you can force your soul into that gracious state. Take your heart in prayer to…

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.

Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny u…

Begin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began, and let the Lord be all in all to you.