Os Guinness Quotes

The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

I'm just a product of grace that's still in the process; And I don't got to be great because my God is.

God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.

Divine grace was never slow.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.

Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.

We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God, and of their own souls, and salvation. Most certainly, altho' we cannot say, That if men improve their natural abilities as they ought to do, that grace will infallibly follow, yet there will not one sinner in all the reprobate world, stand forth at the day of judgment, and say, Lord, thou knowest I did all that possibly I could do, for the obtaining grace, and for all that, thou didst withhold it from me.

We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.

Every day of our Christian experience should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. We are not only saved by grace, but we also live by grace every day.

Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ has done for us, instead of we are saved by what we do for God.

But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

Grace is God doing for us what we could never do and what we will never deserve.