Grace & Salvation
There is no remembrance of our follies, he does not cherish ill thoughts of us, but he pardons and loves as well after the offence as before it.
He who knows most of forgiving love will sing the loudest.
The word ‘Go’ was exchanged for ‘Come’; distance was made to give place to nearness.
We cannot sum up in one word all the mass of sorrows which met upon the head of Jesus who died for us.
True grace puts an end to all spiritual monopoly.
God neither chose them nor called them because they were holy, but he called them that they might be holy.
Thus Jesus is magnified—for all is in him and by him; thus the inheritance is made certain to us—for it is obtained in him.
Not now does he teach the leper his leprosy by setting him at a distance, but by himself suffering the penalty of his defilement.
Believers in Christ Jesus are saved. They are not looked upon as persons who are in a hopeful state, and may ultimately be saved, but they are already saved.
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
Salvation must be of grace, because the Lord is the author of it: and what motive but grace could move him to save the guilty?
A sense of our own poverty drives us to Christ, and that is where we need to be, for in him is our fruit found.
We need fresh supplies of heavenly grace, and in the covenant the Lord has pledged himself to give all we require.
When God saw Jesus in the sinner’s place, he did not spare him; and when he finds the unregenerate without Christ, he will not spare them.
Christ takes a worm and transforms it into an angel; Christ takes a black and deformed thing and makes it clean and matchless in his glory.
All the sin that a believer ever did, or can be allowed to commit, cannot destroy his interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, as his advocate.
The law repels, the gospel attracts. The law shows the distance which there is between God and man; the gospel bridges that awful chasm.
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