Quotes about Mercy

The fact is that no one gives grace better than someone who is convinced that he needs it, as well.

The more you see your sin, the more you will respond tenderly to other sinners and want for them the same grace you have received.

He did what you could never do so that you would be welcomed into the arms of a righteous God and be fully accepted even though, in reality, you are anything but righteous. How can God accept you and not compromise his own righteousness? He can do this because Christ's righteousness has been credited to your moral account. Now, that's amazing grace!

It really does take grace to know how much you need grace.

It's natural to want mercy for yourself but justice for others. It's natural to be very aware of the sin others, yet blind to your own. If we are ever going to be people of mercy, we need bountiful mercy ourselves, because what stands in the way of our being a community of mercy is us.

The first of these comforts is the stunningly encouraging comfort of God's amazing grace.

The reality that on every morning brand-new mercy greets us is not the thing that grips our minds as we frenetically prepare for our day.

your acceptance is based on Christ's righteousness and not yours.

We don't often take time to sit and meditate on what our lives would've been like if the mercy of the Redeemer had not been written into our personal stories.

When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender.

And as you begin to remember that God's mercy is your only hope and you meditate on the grandeur of the mercy that has been showered on you, you begin to want to help others experience that same mercy. You see, to the degree that you forget the mercy you've been given, it is easier for you to not give mercy to others. I daily need God's work of mercy in order to do his work of mercy.

When you remember mercy, complaining gives way to gratitude and self-focused desire gives way to worship.