Quotes related to Ephesians 2:4-5
For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
— St. Augustine
Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.
— Pope John Paul II
You are more sinful than you could dare imagine, and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
— Timothy Keller
Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?
— Pope John Paul II
God does not love us because we are so valuable; we are valuable because God loves us."
— James Sire
Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.
— Richard Baxter
God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God does not decide to love, therefore, and God's love can never be determined by the worthiness or unworthiness of the object. But God is Love itself.4 God cannot not love, because love is the nature of God's very being.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God oft-times doesn't give a lot of answers but just keeps telling us who we are. God just keeps inviting us into that place where love is alive and where God is in love.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
It is interesting to me that very clear passages describing both God's conditional love and also God's unconditional love are found in the same Scriptures...The only real biblical promise is that unconditional love will have the last word!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
experience as "mercy, within mercy, within mercy."6 There's always a lot of anxiety and insecurity in letting go of your current images of yourselves and your images of God.
— Fr. Richard Rohr