Gardiner Spring: Grace

Gardiner Spring was American clergyman. Explore interesting quotes on grace.

Gardiner Spring: 24 quotes 0 likes

“The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows in grace. Grace in the heart as certainly improves and advances, as a tree thrives in a kindly and well watered soil.”

Gardiner Spring

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 294.

Tree , Water , Heart

“Faith from its essential nature implies the fallen state of man, while it recognizes the principles of the covenant of grace. It is itself the condition of that covenant. It is a grace which is alike distinguished from the love of angels and the faith of devils. It is peculiar to the returning sinner. None but a lost sinner needs it; none but a humbled sinner relishes it.”

Gardiner Spring

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 233.

Love , Faith , Angels , Nature

“Serve God, and God will take care of you. Submit to His will, trust in His grace, and resign yourself into His hands with the assurance that the Lord is well pleased with those "that hope in His mercy."”

Gardiner Spring

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 241.

God , Hope

“If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?”

Gardiner Spring

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 295.

Love , World , Christ