Unlimited Grace Quotes

“Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“We sin not because we do not love Christ at all but because we don’t love him above all.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“I do not stop being a child of God because I am a problem child.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“One way of testing whether we are offering a diet of grace sufficient to nurture humble, grateful, and loyal believers is to ask, "Would the message I just taught from God's Word be acceptable in a synagogue or mosque?”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“Teaching people merely to be like some good feature of a biblical character's life is not wrong in itself, but it is wrong by itself.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“Our identity determines what we do; what we do does not determine our identity.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“The most powerful human motivation is love. Guilt is not stronger. Fear is not stronger. Gain is not stronger.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“Si mi interés principal soy yo mismo, será más importante ganar recompensas y comodidades por encima de la vida de servicio y sacrificio a la cual Dios llama a todos los creyentes.”
― Bryan Chapell, Gracia sin límites: La dinámica del corazón que nos libera del pecado e impulsa nuestra vida cristiana

“Dios nos transforma de adentro hacia afuera, dándonos corazones dispuestos y capaces de vivir para Él. Él no nos ama por lo que hacemos. Hacemos lo que Él ama porque amamos a Aquel que nos ama a pesar de nuestro comportamiento. Ya que nunca nos dejará, ni siquiera cuando le fallemos, nunca desearemos fallarle (Ro 5:10; Heb 13:5).”
― Bryan Chapell, Gracia sin límites: La dinámica del corazón que nos libera del pecado e impulsa nuestra vida cristiana

“Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“Grace is never out of view. Grace secures our relationship with God despite our sin. Grace maintains our forgiveness despite the inadequacies of our repentance. Grace filters the consequences of sin in order to protect us from spiritual harm. When this grace captures our hearts, it compels us to love and serve the God who provides its lavish, loving, and lasting provisions.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance; we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“Love for him compels us to live for him.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“God’s care precedes his commands.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“Bitterness is the acid that eats its own container.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“The love we show is the love we know.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“Grace unfolds on every page [of Scripture]: God’s long march through the history of human rebellion and ruin to reach us with the love of his Son; the Savior’s humble service, sinless life, sacrificial death, victorious resurrection, and promised return; the Holy Spirit’s indwelling witness, power, and advocacy—all unswerving despite our wayward ways and hard hearts.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“Because I am united to Christ, God’s love for me is not as variable as my loyalty to him…. God will not love me more because I do better. He will not love me less because I stumble. His love is based not on my behavior but on my union with his Son – a union built on trust in his grace, not my goodness.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life

“We must remember that our justification (being okay with God) and applied sanctification (being a pure child of God) are never determined by what we do but, rather, by faith in what Christ has done. God expects personal works of holiness as a loving response to his grace, but not as a way of gaining it. If we had to earn grace at any time in our Christian lives, it would not be grace.”
― Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life