Monica Johnson Quotes

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

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

It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

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

All I know is that I'm a sinner and that God has forgiven me of my sins. Because I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word.

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

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.

It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ.

It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.

There's no way to get around the fact that Jesus is the only way to Heaven, and He is so good that He exchanged His place in Heaven to come suffer on a cross for humanity and rose to set us free from eternal life in Hell.

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

I believe Jesus Christ is God. I believe He loves every single human being that has ever lived, no matter what they have done, even if they don't believe in Him.

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

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

Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.

There is nothing we've done that can't be wiped clean by Christ.

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

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