Growing Up In Grace Quotes

“If enjoying your relationship with God brings greater happiness than anything else on earth, then it’s clear that His omnipotent goodness and grace are at work in your life.”
― Murray G. Brett, Growing Up in Grace: The Use of Means for Communion with God

“As we grow in humility and holiness, we also grow in happiness because we learn that God is our best portion and that He exalts Himself in all that He is and in all that He does for His glory and our best good.”
― Murray G. Brett, Growing Up in Grace: The Use of Means for Communion with God

“repentance is laying your greatest treasures in the dust. Anything which takes the rightful place of God in your heart has to be laid down.”
― Murray G. Brett, Growing Up in Grace: The Use of Means for Communion with God

“Taking pleasure in God is our chief motive for repentance, faith, and fellowship with Him!”
― Murray G. Brett, Growing Up in Grace: The Use of Means for Communion with God

“God hears our prayers when they pass from our hearts to the heart of Christ by means of the Spirit and the Word, and the heart from which the prayer of faith springs is not the heart that holds onto sin and self-will. The prayer of faith springs from a heart that puts the flesh and remaining sin to death, and the question we must ask ourselves is this: Am I engaged in this war for my soul through fervent faithful prayer?”
― Murray G. Brett, Growing Up in Grace: The Use of Means for Communion with God

“Delighting in God results in the transformation of unholy desires into holy desires, desires that are consistent with the purposes of God.”
― Murray G. Brett, Growing Up in Grace: The Use of Means for Communion with God

“Abiding in Christ and seeking to fill our hearts with His Word results in the conforming of our thoughts and our affections, our attitudes and our actions, to Christ as Lord of all.”
― Murray G. Brett, Growing Up in Grace: The Use of Means for Communion with God

“Repentance is not penance. We do not pay for sin; in fact, we cannot pay for sin. Once pardoned by the blood of Christ and clothed in His righteousness, God does not require further payment from us; but He does require repentance.”
― Murray G. Brett, Growing Up in Grace: The Use of Means for Communion with God

“If we refuse to be broken over our sin and refuse to die to self to which Christ calls us and in its place we promote self, which is the inevitable result of refusing to be broken over sin—then the glory of Christ and all He accomplished for us will become increasingly unimportant to us.”
― Murray G. Brett, Growing Up in Grace: The Use of Means for Communion with God

“Godly sorrow not only leads us to open our hearts to God, it also leads us to open our hearts to others.”
― Murray G. Brett, Growing Up in Grace: The Use of Means for Communion with God

“The servant of God is happiest when he or she and those whom they are serving experience true brokenness. The price of God’s glory shining in our lives is brokenness.”
― Murray G. Brett, Growing Up in Grace: The Use of Means for Communion with God