Augustine of Hippo (354-430) - "God's grace is not given because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them."
Martin Luther (1483-1546) - "This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing; it does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man; and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced."
John Bunyan (1628-1688) - "In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart, but best of all is a heart that gives thanks and praise for the grace of God."
Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) - "My own personal experience is daily teaching me what a poor, weak creature I am, and how I am nothing, and nobody, except by the grace of God."
John Newton (1725-1807) - "I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am."
Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) - "Grace means the free, unmerited favor of God; the undeserved love of God for men that leads him to provide their redemption."
A.W. Tozer (1897-1963) - "Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) - "Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ."
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) - "Grace is but Glory begun, and Glory is but Grace perfected."
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) - "The grace of God is the most marvelous thing of all. Grace is everything Jesus; grace pays the debt for sin."
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) - "Grace replaces sin, not reason."
Watchman Nee (1903-1972) - "Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God."
Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983 - "There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still. With Jesus, even in our darkest moments the best remains and the very best is yet to be. All I have needed Thy hand hath provided—Great is Thy faithfulness, dear Lord unto me!"
George Müller (1805-1898) - "The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety."
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) - "Grace, which is the flow of mercy, cannot pump through a heart clogged with sin."
Andrew Murray (1828-1917) - "Grace is the divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification; a virtue coming from God."
R.A. Torrey (1856-1928) - "Grace is not looking for men that are perfect in their own eyes, nor is it looking for men who are perfectly equipped, but it is looking for men who are completely surrendered to it."