“It is cheap grace, not genuine grace, that thinks life in Christ is without remorse for past sin and for remaining corruption.”
John Piper
Category: Quotes
Sin-Hating
“The man who knows that Jesus shed his blood for him, and has had that blood applied to his conscience, becomes a sin-hating man, consecrated to Him who cleansed him. . . . Those who are debtors for salvation to their dying Lord should be the most holy of men.”
Charles Spurgeon
Slightest Atom
“There is not . . . the slightest atom of saving power anywhere but in the blood of Jesus. That blood has the only power to save, and anything else that you rely upon shall be a refuge of lies.”
Charles Spurgeon
His Hold
“It is not your hold of Christ that saves you; it is His hold of you.”
Charles Spurgeon
Preciousness
“You cannot put an estimate upon it [the blood of Christ] that would so much as reach to a millionth part of its preciousness.”
Charles Spurgeon
Wondering
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us. We are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
C.S. Lewis
Never Fails
“A man’s heart never fails to deceive him when he places his trust in it.”
John Owen
Ultimate Satisfaction
“Ultimate satisfaction is not in a lover, a landscape, or a livelihood; although they may rightly please us, they will pass. That which is eternal and on which the soul must rest is “higher up” and “further back” . . . than those things we presently relish, and it can be provided only by the One who is able to do more than we would ask or even think.”
Bryan Chapell