Quotations

«He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.»

«Everything I've accomplished I've accomplished through the grace of God and pure stubbornness»

«Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake»

«For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, / Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; / Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; / Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.»

«For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; / Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men; / And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.»

«For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.»

«For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, / If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: / How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, / Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) / Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; / That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: / Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.»

«Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: / Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; / Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.»

«Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.»

«If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.»