Grace and Mercy Quotes

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

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.

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.

Grace and mercy are never deserved.

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

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

Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.

The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.

Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.

Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise.

All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of our souls depends, are represented to us in all their splendour in and through Christ. No wonder then that Christ is glorious in the eyes of believers!

God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

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

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?

I testify that Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem, was and is the Only Begotten of the Father, the Lamb of God. He chose from before the foundations of the earth to be your Savior, my Savior, and the Savior of all we will ever know or meet.

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.

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.