Salutary Sunday Quotes

Two nights ago I had the privilege of preaching on Grace at church in our network--a church filled with many beloved and close friends who genuinely love Jesus, which made the privilege an even greater honor. My message came out more like a proclamatory conversation over Titus 2:11, 3; Eph 2 and Acts 11:22-24. Nonetheless, I've been thinking about grace. Here's something to stoke the embers of the heart towards the God of Grace.

"Grace" is more than mercy and love, it superadds to them. it denotes, not simply love, but the love of a sovereign, transcendly superior, one that may do what he will, that may wholly choose whether he will love or no. There may be love between equals, and an inferior may love a superior; but love in a superior, and so superior as he may do what he will, in such a one love is called grace: and therefore grace is attributed to princes; they are said to be gracious to their subjects, whereas subjects cannot be gracious to princes. Now God, who is an infinite Sovereign, who might have chosen whether ever He would love us or no, for Him to love us, this is grace.

—Thomas Goodwin