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"'Create'—this is grace language. We cannot clean our own hearts; we can only receive what God creates. David the king becomes David the beggar: 'Have mercy on me.' The clean heart is gift, not achievement. Sola gratia—grace alone creates what law demands." — Martin Luther.
"Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more, and nothing we can do to make God love us less. It is gift—pure, unearned, undeserved. We cannot boast because we contributed nothing. We can only...
"This is the heart of the gospel: Christ died for SINNERS. Not for the righteous, not for the deserving, but for sinners. I am that sinner! You are that sinner! And for US He died. The cross demolishes every attempt at self-salvation.