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Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel QUOTES

Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel QUOTES

1 " Election does not exclude anybody from the kingdom of God who wants in. Rather, it includes in God’s kingdom those whose direction is away from the kingdom of God and those who would otherwise remain forever in the kingdom of sin and death. "

― Michael S. Horton , Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel

2 " Religion is, for the most part, our way of covering ourselves, a means of sewing respectability, morality, and charity into a patchwork garment that can hide our nakedness. "

― Michael S. Horton , Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel

3 " God does not give us the grace to save ourselves with his aid. He declares us righteous the moment we give up our own claims to righteousness and our own struggles for divine approval and recognize the sufficiency of Christ’s righteousness as our own. "

― Michael S. Horton , Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel

4 " Grace is the gospel. The extent to which we are unclear about who does what in salvation is the degree to which we will obscure the gospel. "

― Michael S. Horton , Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel

5 " Thus, the purpose of our creation is the pleasure of God. It is not for our happiness or pleasure that we exist, but for God’s. That is a very different orientation from the one we are constantly offered in our popular commercial culture—an orientation that has made vast inroads into our own evangelical subculture. "

― Michael S. Horton , Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel

6 " Jesus chastised the Pharisees for focusing on sinful actions without recognizing that the real problem is affections and that those affections are ruled by whatever one’s master happens to be. "

― Michael S. Horton , Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel