Johann Arndt Quotes

Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

Getting into Heaven is not something you can earn or deserve. God makes that really clear in the scriptures.

Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God. Thinking that we can trade our good works for salvation is like buying a plane ticket and then supposing we own the airline. Or thinking that after paying rent for our home, we now hold title to the entire planet earth.

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!

Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.

Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.

Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.

The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

The stuff that's made up about Jesus - that you have to go through Jesus to get to God and if you're lucky, after you die, if you've done everything right, the reward is you get to sit on the right hand side of God. All that is made up by men. People made it up.

I believe there are going to be millions of Catholics in Heaven because they trusted in Christ as their savior.

There is a power of God for salvation. And it is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I hope not in works. I hope not in ethics. I hope not in baptisms or church membership. I hope in Christ alone.

Only by God's mercy and grace. We aren't worthy, we're all sinners, but we are because of Jesus dying for us.