All TIMOTHY KELLER Quotes about “Grace”

“When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.”
“God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.”
“The Bibleâ€™s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bibleâ€™s purpose is to show you how Godâ€™s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcomeâ€¦ religion is â€˜if you obey, then you will be acceptedâ€™. But the Gospel is, â€˜if you are absolutely accepted, and sure youâ€™re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obeyâ€™. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.”
“...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can "just forgive" the perpetrator.... But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.”
“If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.”
“As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.”
“If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.”
“God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.”
“If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.”
“The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.”
“[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.”
“God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.”
“Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.”
“If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.”
“Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.”
“The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing Godâ€™s grace appears to you.”

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