The Case for Grace Quotes

“All we needed when we first came to Jesus was his grace, and grace is all we need to grow in Christ. Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“These are his people, this congregation of misfits, crack addicts, and drunks, the unshaven, unwashed, unemployed, and unwanted.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“It’s hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you’ve failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“But C. S. Lewis made the point that we hate sin but love the sinner all the time — in our own lives. In other words, when we’re judging ourselves, we always love the sinner despite our sin. We accept ourselves, even though we might not always like our behavior.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Are you sure?” I asked. “I thought there was a story in Buddhist literature that parallels the Prodigal Son parable.” “Well, they’re similar to the degree that they both involve sons who rebelled and left home, then later saw the error of their ways and came back. But the Buddhist story ends quite differently — the son has to work off his misdeeds.” “How?” “He ends up toiling for twenty-five years, hauling dung. So that provides a stark contrast between the God of grace and a religion where people have to work their way to nirvana.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“says he ‘welcomes sinners and eats with them.’14 Now, think about that. In his culture, to dine with someone meant to offer friendship. The word welcome in Greek means that he took great pleasure in them. Jesus doesn’t delight in sin, but he liked being around these people, maybe because they were well aware of their depravity, unlike many of the religious folks who masked it with hypocrisy.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,’ says C. S. Lewis.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“he bajado mis expectativas de mí mismo y otros, a la vez que he elevado mis expectativas de Dios y su gracia». —”
― Lee Strobel, El caso de la gracia: Un periodista explora las evidencias de unas vidas transformadas

“¡Soy su hijo, soy su hijo, soy su hijo! Por eso es que me ha tratado de esta manera. ¡Soy su hijo!”
― Lee Strobel, El caso de la gracia: Un periodista explora las evidencias de unas vidas transformadas

“That is the joyful task of every follower of Jesus. Someday may it be written about me on my tombstone: He was so amazed by God's grace that he couldn't keep it to himself.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Yes, in Christianity, the gap that our sin creates between us and God is simply insurmountable. Trying to cross it is like jumping off the Newport Beach pier and trying to leap to Hawaii,” he said, gesturing in the general direction of the Pacific Ocean.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“The insights that freed Jud were similar to the ones that led to my own recovery from spiritual workaholism after being confronted by my boss years ago. I came to realize that God didn’t love me because I made myself valuable through service; on the contrary, I was valuable because I was loved by God. I could stop working like a slave to justify myself; I just needed to recognize — and celebrate — my adoption as God’s child.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“One night I got a call from the church’s senior pastor, Bill Hybels. “I heard a nasty rumor about you,” he said. I was taken aback. “Like what?” “That you’re working at the church sixty or seventy hours a week. That you’re there late into the night and all day Sunday.” To be honest, I swelled with pride. That’s right, I wanted to say. I’m the hardest working member of the staff. Finally, it’s time for some recognition and thanks — if not directly from God, then from my pastor.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Yo necesitaba desesperadamente absorber esta verdad de nuevo: estoy más allá del perdón. Soy más que un sirviente. He sido adoptado por un Padre cuyo amor es perfecto, cuya aceptación es incondicional, cuyo afecto nunca acaba y cuya generosidad no tiene límites. Un Padre que está de mi parte… para siempre.”
― Lee Strobel, El caso de la gracia: Un periodista explora las evidencias de unas vidas transformadas

“Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . and there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. Philip Yancey1”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“... even if I were to actually lose everything - my house, my finances, my friends, my reputation, my position - it really wouldn't matter in the end, because I would still have God's grace. I would still be the Father's adopted and beloved son. And that would be enough.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is an illusion.— BRENNAN MANNING”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“When the Bible says God loves the world, it doesn’t footnote any exceptions. God’s grace is inexhaustible.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Jesus’s death has infinite value because he’s an infinite God; it was enough to cover all the sins of the world. If we say some sin is too terrible, then we’re saying Jesus fell short in his mission. Grace is only grace if it’s available even to the Duchs of the world. In fact,” he said, straightening himself in his chair, “here’s a difficult thing for us to comprehend: God loves Duch as much as he loves you and me.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“God didn’t love me because I made myself valuable through service; on the contrary, I was valuable because I was loved by God.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Only by facing my sin could God use it to change me for the better. The Bible warns that God’s discipline isn’t pleasant, but in the end the changes God produces in our character are worth it.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Christianity is different, first, because of grace; second, because it’s testable; and third, because it paints a picture that matches the way the world is, in a way that other religions don’t.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“while grace sets apart Christianity, so does truth. Jesus was filled with grace and truth, and in Christianity you can know the truth, not just through some sort of spiritual experience, but also through careful investigation.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Islam is essentially a system of trying to please God, and yet nobody can have confidence that they’ve done enough to warrant paradise,”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Over the next 1,364 days, the Khmer Rouge, seeking to obliterate the social classes and create an agrarian society of peasants, was responsible for killing, starving, or working to death about two million Cambodians, out of a population of eight million. Accounting for the percentage of people destroyed, Pol Pot’s Communist regime was the most murderous in the modern age.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Afterward, an evangelical student seemed bothered. He said, ‘I’m having trouble seeing the difference between what they do and what we do. It felt the same.’ “As I explained to this student, it’s true that people in other religious movements can have wonderful experiences that make them feel spiritually uplifted. In fact, good feelings can be generated in so many different ways that we ought not let our feelings dictate which religious direction we’re going to go.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Hazen thought for a moment, then concluded: “You know, even if all religions were figments of our imagination, I would choose Christianity, because it says you can be assured that you’re right with God. There’s no need for performance anxiety or laboring through lifetime after lifetime. As the Bible says in 1 John 5:13: ‘I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“The truth is that God could have forgiven my past and given me assurance of heaven and yet kept me at arm’s length. He could have made me a mere servant in his kingdom household — and even that would have been more than I merited. But his grace is far more outrageous than that.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Until that moment, I only saw Jesus as the Son of God. I knew he had come down to earth, but that night for the first time it dawned on me: He understands me. He walked in my shoes! As a matter of fact, he was sort of a toogee. You know? His daddy — his earthly father — wasn’t his real daddy. He slept in the straw as a child. He was ridiculed and abused. They chased him and tried to kill him.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives