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

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Thomas Brooks (1608-1680) was a prominent English author known for his religious and philosophical writings. His works held a significant place in 17th-century English literature and have had a profound impact on later generations. more

“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.”

Ifs Mean Doe Law Certain Grace Holy Demand Fulfillment Righteous Deliverance

Book:The Normal Christian Life

Source: The Normal Christian Life

“It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.”

“Grace... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.”

Two Spirit Christ Grace Divine Holy Favors Holy Spirit Assistance Grace Of God God's Grace Complementary

Book:The practice of godliness

Source: The practice of godliness

“Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.”

Facts Realizing Greater Grace Awful God's Grace Depravity

Author:Randy Alcorn

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

Ends Grace Salvation

Author:Charles Spurgeon

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

Men Grace Humble Glad

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.”

Men Grace Pure Covenant

Book:Collected Works Vol. 1

Source: Collected Works Vol. 1

“No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.”

Thinking Matter Heaven Term Grace Be You Sovereign

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.”

Ifs Grace Creatures Cease

Book:The Attributes of God

Source: The Attributes of God

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