Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.
Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.