Quotes about Mercy

face up to the seriousness — possibly a high-handed wickedness — of what they did; and still to forgive. This

But Mr. Spurgeon, what if we convert one of the nonelect?" Spurgeon patted him on the back and replied, "God will forgive you for that." I have never regretted asking a person to close with Christ.

grace is getting what we don't deserve (favour) and mercy is not getting what we do deserve (justice).

forgiveness.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

The thing that awakens the deepest well of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven sin." —Oswald Chambers

C. S. Lewis wrote, "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." Jesus said if your brother "sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him" (Luke 17:4).

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

the cross is the centerpiece of the gospel message. It is truly the intersection of love and justice, judgment and grace, exactitude and mercy. The demands of the law call for perfection. But the law itself cannot transform the human heart. What this really means is that perfection cannot get us into heaven, but our faith in the Perfect One can. His justice comes hand in hand with love. And neither ever violates the other.

God's grace is beyond description. He lifted all of us over the walls of our own imprisonment.

Someone has said that our sin scorches us most after we have received forgiveness, and not before. Once you realize how much you've been forgiven, you see how great that forgiveness really is.

The redeemed heart says, "The reason by which we live is the heart of mercy that does not keep a ledger.