Peter Kreeft Quotes

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.

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.

The grace of God is courtesy.

God's grace is definitely abundant.

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you're down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding. We all fall short of the glory, we all got plenty.

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.

God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy.

Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.

Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.

God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.