By grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God. - Ephesians 2:8

We have faith in the gospel not because of our own will, but because the grace of God, bought with the blood of Christ, allows us to. Because grace is free, not based upon our works, and bought with the life, death, and ressurection of Christ, we are forgiven, saved, righteous, and justified in the eyes of God, so that God may be magnified.