Max Lucado Quotes

The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.

God's grace, quite simply, is God's mercy and goodness toward us.

Most people have settled for a wimpy grace. It's something that doesn't change their lives. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

Nature is not as forgiving as Christ.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

I'm a Christian, and I forgive people. That's the mature thing to do.

Let us never forget this, he is pure mercy, let us go to Jesus!

This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

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

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.