Quotes about Saving grace

So the salvation of Christ is called "salvations" and "mercies" (cf. Ps. 28:8; 17:7; 25:6), because it saves many and ascribes a manifold salvation to all.

Then and now, broken sinners are the kinds of people God chooses to save, to bless, and to help.

The only preaching which is up to date for every time is the preaching of this eternity, which is opened to us in the Bible alone — the eternal of holy love, grace and redemption, the eternal and immutable morality of saving grace for our indelible sin.

God's saving grace ignites in the hearts of all his children a radical shift in ambition. Where once our thoughts, desires, words, and actions were motivated and directed by our ambition to achieve our definition of personal happiness, by grace they are now shaped by our ambition for the kingdom of God to achieve all God has designed for it to achieve. Where once we were ambitious for what we want, we now are ambitious to do the will of God.

Christianity gutted of Christ is devoid of both its beauty and its power.

Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.

Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.

He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

So two things, on our part, are required to receive God's saving grace: repentance from sin and faith in God Who saves us (by grace, in Christ). Both are free choices, and both are necessary to allow grace to enter our souls.

He came. That is the salient fact, the towering truth, that alone keeps us from putting a bullet through our heads. He came.

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.