Charles Portis Quotes

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it

Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most.

Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.

There is no way to work your way to God. There is no way to climb up to heaven. There is only one way, and that is through Christ.

The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it

It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.

We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.

Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

There's no free ride. Someone always pays and if you don't know who that someone is, it's probably you.

Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.