John Dryden Quotes

Grace and mercy are never deserved.

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way." If this goes on day after day after day, year after year, month after month, it would understandable for God to say, "I've given you ten trillion tries. You're finished." But it's not. So in that sense, His grace is always surprising, never ceases to be amazing and His mercy is remarkably outrageous.

Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.

In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

God is not pre-occupied with sin, He’s already dealt with it.

When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.

Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.

I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.

The tender mercies of the Lord are available to all of us and...the Redeemer of Israel is eager to bestow such gifts upon us.

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

God does not keep an itemized account of all your failures.

In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us.