Wednesday, December 14

The exercise of grace

Let us remember that grace is increased, in the exercise of it, not by virtue of the exercise itself, but as Christ by his Spirit flows into the soul and brings us nearer to himself, the fountain, so instilling such comfort that the heart is further enlarged.

— Richard Sibbes, quoted by Jared C. Wilson in
Gospel Wakefulness
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2011), 26