God accepts both a sinner who only believed in Christ five minutes ago, and a saint who has known and loved Him for eighty years, for He does not accept men because of anything they do or feel, but simply and solely because of what Christ did.
-- Charles Spurgeon.Whenever sin stings you, and objections trouble you, look to the brazen serpent; confess sin, and trust for pardon; meditate on Christ's righteousness, and the abundance of grace in him (Rom viii, 32).
--Walter Marshall.
I find the only happiness is to lie down as a poor sinner at the feet of the once crucified, but now exalted Lamb of God, who died for our sins and rose again for our justification.
George Whitefield
All of us need grace, the saint as well as the sinner. The most conscientious, dutiful, hardworking Christian needs God’s grace as much as the most dissolute, hard-living sinner. All of us need the same grace. The sinner doesn’t need more grace than the saint, nor does the immature and undisciplined believer need more than the godly, zealous missionary. We all need the same amount because the “currency” of our good works is debased and worthless before God.
-- Jerry Bridges
God’s grace cuts both ways: It can neither be earned by your merit nor forfeited by your demerit.
-- Jerry Bridges.
“Either sin is lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God - and if it is resting on Christ, you are free."
-Martin Luther“After ten thousand sins he loves you as infinitely as ever.”
— Charles SpurgeonNone of us would have any hope of arriving at glory if it depended upon us. I mean this. Even those who are regenerate, even those of us who are born again, even those of us who have the gift of faith, if it were left to us, we should all fail and falter.
Dr. Martyn Lloyd-JonesFree grace will fix those, whom free will shook down into a gulph of misery.
- Thomas BostonThe gospel daily reminds us that from God's point of view, our relationship with Him is not based on how good or bad we've been but upon the perfect goodness and death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jerry Bridges