Sovereign Grace Quotes

Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in conflict with each other in the least degree.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.

Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That’s why He’s not going to let it fail.

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.

God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions.

They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.