Our mind cannot find a comparison too large for expressing the superabundant mercy of the Lord toward his people.
– David Dickson
Mercy
Happy are those whose self-centered lives have been crushed and reshaped by the Master’s hand to be full of mercy.
– John Hagee
Happiness | Mercy
A man does not get grace till he comes down to the ground, till he sees he needs grace. When a man stoops to the dust and acknowledges that he needs mercy, then it is that the Lord will give him grace.
– Dwight L. Moody
Grace | Mercy
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Mercy
The high heaven covereth as well tall mountains as small mole hills, and mercy can cover all. The more desperate thy disease, the greater is the glory of thy physician, who hath perfectly cured thee.
– Abraham Wright
Mercy | Healing
The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.
– Alexander MacLaren
God | Mercy
God’s mercies are new every morning. Receive them.
– Max Lucado
Mercy
As every mercy is a drop obtained from the ocean of God’s goodness, so every affliction is a drachm weighed out in the wisdom of God’s providence.
– James H. Aughey
Mercy | Affliction | Providence
When mercy is shown–mercy is given.
– Duane Chapman
Mercy
Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
– George Whitefield
Faith | Mercy
Mercy is not for them that sin and fear not, but for them that fear and sin not.
– Thomas Watson
Mercy | Fear
How may we know that we are rightly thankful? When we are careful to register God’s mercy… Physicians say the memory is the first thing that decays; it is true in spirituals.
– Thomas Watson
Thankfulness | Mercy
Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.
– John of Kronstadt
Mercy
Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!
– John Hagee
Mercy
So weak is man, so ignorant and blind, that did not God sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, we should be ruined at our own request.
– Hannah More
Mercy
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother’s name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,” though it have “no language but a cry,” will never call in vain.
– Alexander MacLaren
Prayer | Mercy
We may be sure God will not be hard to be entreated of us, who himself hath appointed us such an intercessor, to whom he can deny nothing; and to that end hath appointed him to sit at his right hand to make intercession for us.
– Abraham Wright
Jesus | Mercy | Intercession
Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.
– Thomas Brooks
Mercy | Love
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 our sin.
– Max Lucado
Mercy
He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
– Thomas Brooks
Mercy | Gratitude
You do not really care for God’s mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.
– Alexander Whyte
Sin | Mercy | Comfort
Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.
– Jeremy Taylor
Mercy
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
– William Law
Mercy | Virtue
God just doesn’t throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
– R. C. Sproul
Mercy
Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the comforts of life, while in the meantime Providence has tenderly preserved you.
– John Flavel
Mercy
If you look at God with the eye of the lawyer, the least sin makes you ineligible for mercy; but if you look at him in Christ, or with an evangelical eye, the greatest sinner may receive mercy; yes, the sense of unworthiness makes a man the more receptive.
– Ralph Erskine
Mercy
When a Christian shows mercy, he experiences liberation.
– Warren Wiersbe
Mercy
Look upon those who mourn in Zion–put their tears into your bottle–listen to their sighs and groans.
– William Tiptaft
Mercy
Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy.
– Charles Spurgeon
Salvation | Mercy
I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
– David Brainerd
Mercy
The more affected we are with our misery, the fitter for Christ’s mercy.
– Thomas Manton
Mercy
The saints fare the better for the insolence and outrages of their enemies, whose ruin is thereby accelerated; and somewhat God will do the sooner for his people, lest the enemy exalt himself.
– Abraham Wright
Mercy
God intermixeth mercy with affliction: he steeps his sword of justice in the oil of mercy; there was no night so dark, but Israel had a pillar of fire in it; there is no condition so dismal, but we may see a pillar of fire to give light. If the body be in pain, conscience is in peace, –there is mercy: affliction is for the prevention of sin, –there is mercy. In the ark there was a rod and a pot of manna, the emblem of a Christian’s condition, mercy interlined with judgment.
– Thomas Watson
Affliction | Mercy
God’s mercy with a sinner is only equaled and perhaps outmatched by His patience with the saints, with you and me.
– Alan Redpath
Mercy
You do not really care for God’s mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.
– Alexander Whyte
Sin | Mercy | Comfort
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
– William Gurnall
Mercy
We may be sure God will not be hard to be entreated of us, who himself hath appointed us such an intercessor, to whom he can deny nothing; and to that end hath appointed him to sit at his right hand to make intercession for us.
– Abraham Wright
Jesus | Mercy | Intercession
Though Christians be not kept altogether from falling, yet they are kept from falling altogether.
– William Secker
Mercy
At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart’s love upon people like us.
– Alistair Begg
Mercy
In our addresses therefore unto God, let us so look upon him as a just God, as well as a merciful; and not either despair of or presume upon his mercy.
– Abraham Wright
Mercy
There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.
– Thomas Merton
Mercy
God’s mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than God has forgiven you.
– Rick Warren
Mercy
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God’s mercy to me.
– Thomas Merton
Mercy
To sin because mercy abounds is the devil’s logic; he that sins because of God’s mercy, shall have judgment without mercy. Mercy is not for them that sin and fear not, but for them that fear and sin not.
– Thomas Watson
Sin | Mercy | Satan
Kings in this should imitate God; their mercy should be above their works.
– William Penn
Mercy
In our addresses therefore unto God, let us so look upon him as a just God, as well as a merciful; and not either despair of or presume upon his mercy.
– Abraham Wright
Mercy
The Gospel is good news of mercy to the undeserving. The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.
– John Stott
The Gospel | Mercy | The Cross
I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
– David Brainerd
Mercy | Conviction
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.
– Warren Wiersbe
Mercy
How glorious that, when we resist God’s purpose and all but wreck ourselves, He will make us again. Truly we would be a hopeless race but for the fact that we have a mighty God who is able to remake us even when we have rebelled against Him and have thwarted His blessed plans for us.
– Clovis G. Chappell
Mercy
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother’s name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,” though it have “no language but a cry,” will never call in vain.
– Alexander MacLaren
Prayer | Mercy
The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.
– Alexander MacLaren
God | Mercy
The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.
– Thomas Watson
Mercy | Humility
The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others, are always the most free from faults themselves.
– James H. Aughey
Mercy
Have you ever esteemed it a mercy that you are out of hell?
– William Tiptaft
Mercy | Hell
I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan.
– Kirk Cameron
Mercy
God’s mercy with a sinner is only equaled and perhaps outmatched by His patience with the saints, with you and me.
– Alan Redpath
Mercy
Embrace in one act the two truths–thine own sin, and God’s infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
– Alexander MacLaren
Mercy
Jesus is strong…but He’s also approachable. He is able to carry our load…but He’ll never make us feel embarrassed or defeated for asking.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Mercy
Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.
– Thomas Merton
God | Mercy | Christ | Identity
Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy.
– Alistair Begg
Grace | Mercy
He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.
– William Gurnall
Mercy | Impatience
Your foes may be numerous as the devils in hell, strong and wily; but He will save.
– F.B. Meyer
Mercy
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence. A just man does justice to every man and to everything; and then, if he be also wise, he knows there is a debt of mercy and compassion due to the infirmities of man’s nature; and that is to be paid; and he that is cruel and ungentle to a sinning person, and does the worst to him, is in his debt and is unjust.
– Jeremy Taylor
Justice | Mercy
Embrace in one act the two truths–thine own sin, and God’s infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
– Alexander MacLaren
Mercy
God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God’s refusals are always merciful- “severe mercies” at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
– Elisabeth Elliot
Mercy
The high heaven covereth as well tall mountains as small mole hills, and mercy can cover all. The more desperate thy disease, the greater is the glory of thy physician, who hath perfectly cured thee.
– Abraham Wright
Mercy | Healing
Have you ever stood on the same plot of ground with the publican, crying–God be merciful to me a sinner?
– William Tiptaft
Mercy | Repentance
Let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all His providences, about such vile, despicable worms as we are! He does not need us, but is perfectly blessed and happy in Himself without us. We can add nothing to Him.
– John Flavel
Mercy
Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!
– Thomas Fuller
Mercy | Discretion
Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
– Tim Keller
Forgiveness | Mercy
No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.
– Richard Sibbes
Sin | Mercy
Mercy is forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.
– Daniel Webster
Mercy
The saints fare the better for the insolence and outrages of their enemies, whose ruin is thereby accelerated; and somewhat God will do the sooner for his people, lest the enemy exalt himself.
– Abraham Wright
Mercy
Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful.
– C.S. Lewis
Mercy | Justice
God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people.
– Charles Spurgeon
Justice | Mercy
When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy (Isa. 41:17-18).
– John Flavel
Mercy
I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
– David Brainerd
Mercy
Christians, you who are vessels of election – were by nature as wicked as others – but God had compassion on you and plucked you as brands out of the fire! He stopped you in your course of sinning – when you were marching to hell! He turned you back to Him by sincere repentance. Oh, here is the banner of love displayed over you!
– Thomas Watson
Mercy
Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.
– John Bunyan
Faith | Mercy
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us – as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
– John Calvin
Mercy | Prayer | Freedom
God’s mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.
– Charles Spurgeon
Mercy
God is more willing to pardon than to punish. Mercy does more multiply in Him than sin in us. Mercy is His nature.
– Thomas Watson
Mercy
Until we taste the bitterness of our own misery we will never relish the sweetness of God’s mercy. Until we see how foul our sins have made us we will never pay our tribute of praise to Christ for washing us… If you would know the heart of your sin then you must know the sins of your heart!
– William Secker
Bitterness | Mercy | The Heart
If one’s conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Mercy | Unbelief
Justice is for those who deserve it; mercy is for those who don’t.
– Woodrow Kroll
Justice | Mercy