Grace

I started reading a book by D.L. Moody entitled "Sovereign Grace". In this book, Moody seeks to draw out the great emphasis of grace as a free gift from God. There are many good quotes so far but here are a few that have stuck out to me the most.
"Thousands have been kept out of the kingdom of God because they do not realize what this free gift is. They think they must do something to merit salvation."

"The thief would have continued breathing out his blasphemies, had not grace arrested his tongue and tuned t for glory."

"My friend, we would have been this day wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness-Christless-hopeless-portionless-had not grace invited us, and grace constrained us."

"When the church and the world wake up to the fact that works before salvation go for nought, then-and not till then, I believe-men will come flocking into the kingdom of God by hundreds. We work from the cross, not to it. We work because we are saved, not in order to be saved. We work from salvation, no up to it. Salvation is the gift of God."

"God works in us; and then we work for Him. If He has done a work in us, we certainly ought to go and work for others. A man must have this salvation, and must know it, before he can work for the salvation of others."

"The religion of Christ is not man working his way up to God; it is God coming down to man. It is Christ coming down to the pit of sin and woe where we are, bringing us out of the pit, putting our feet upon a rock, and a new song in our mouth."

"If we look at salvation as a new life, it must be the work of God. God is the author of life: you cannot give yourself life. If we consider it as a gift, it must come from one outside of ourselves."

"Salvation is freely offered to all, but the trouble is that men do not believe God's Word, and do not accept the gift."