Joyce Meyer Quotes

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.

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

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck on recycled pop psychology, moral exhortation, or entertainment. But these fail to speak to the eternal question that haunts all of us: 'How do I know that I'm OK?' We all want to know we are justified.

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.

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.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of 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.

I sinned daily, and Jesus still loves me. It's all washed, and if the Lord doesn't judge me and it's all forgiven, then no other man, woman, animal - anything, I don't know - can judge me!

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.