Our Lord worked with people as they were, and He was patient-not tolerant of sin, but compassionate.
Vance Havner
Grace & Mercy
Christian Quotes About Grace & Mercy
Suzanne Woods Fisher — We fail in the work of grace…
We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
Fred Rodgers — How sad it is…
How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
Fred Rodgers
Augustus Toplady — The breathing I did yesterday…
The breathing I did yesterday will not keep me alive today- I must continue to breathe afresh every moment, or my life will cease. In like manner, yesterday’s grace and spiritual strength must be renewed, and the Holy Spirit must continue to breathe on my soul from moment to moment in order that I may continue to enjoy Him and to work the works He has assigned me.
Augustus Toplady
Frederick Buechner — The grace of God…
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. I am with you.
Frederick Buechner
D. L. Moody — A man can no more take in a supply of grace…
A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough for the next six months, or take sufficient air into his lungs at one time to sustain life for a week. We must draw upon God’s boundless store of grace from day to day as we need it.
D. L. Moody
Francois Fenelon — Nothing marks so much…
Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one’s wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.
Francois Fenelon
Ray Pritchard — God’s mercies come day by day…
God’s mercies come day by day. They come when we need them- not earlier and not later. God gives us what we need today. If we needed more, He would give us more. When we need something else, He will give that as well. Nothing we truly need will ever be withheld from us. Search your problems, and within them you will discover the well-disguised mercies of God.
Ray Pritchard
C. H. Spurgeon — Between here and heaven…
Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.
C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon — Ah! the bridge of grace…
Ah! the bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. I can hear their trampings now as they traverse the great arches of the bridge of salvation. They come by their thousands, by their myriads; e’er since the day when Christ first entered into His glory, they come, and yet never a stone has sprung in that mighty bridge. Some have been the chief of sinners, and some have come at the very last of their days, but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support; it will bear me over as it has borne them.
C. H. Spurgeon
John Piper — Grace is not simply leniency…
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. Therefore the effort we make to obey God is not an effort done in our own strength, but in the strength which God supplies.
John Piper
Eugene Peterson — The Hebrew evening/morning sequence…
The Hebrew evening/morning sequence conditions us to the rhythms of grace. We go to sleep, and God begins his work…We wake into a world we didn’t make, into a salvation we didn’t earn.
Eugene Peterson
J. C. Ryle — When I speak of a person growing in grace…
When I speak of a person growing in grace, I mean simply this- that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, and his spiritual mindedness more marked.
J. C. Ryle
Joni Eareckson Tada — Just think: Every promise God has made…
Just think: Every promise God has ever made finds its fulfillment in Jesus. God doesn’t just give us grace; he gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace. If it’s peace, it’s only found in Jesus, the Prince of Peace. Even life itself is found in the Resurrection and the Life. Christianity isn’t all that complicated…it’s Jesus.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Charles Spurgeon — God’s mercy is so great…
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
Steven Curtis Chapman — Because of God’s grace…
Because of God’s grace, there is nothing we can do that will make Him love us more than He already does. And there is nothing we can do or have done that will cause Him to love us any less.
Steven Curtis Chapman
Robert Louis Stevenson — There is nothing but God’s grace…
There is nothing but God’s grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Philip Yancey — Grace means that God…
Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.
Philip Yancey
Annie Johnson Flint — God has not promised skies always blue…
God has not promised skies always blue,
flower-strewn pathways all our lives through;
God has not promised sun without rain,
joy without sorrow, peace without pain.
But God has promised strength for the day,
rest for the labor, light for the way,
grace for the trials, help from above,
unfailing sympathy, undying love.
Annie Johnson Flint
Thomas Kempis — Have confidence in God’s mercy…
Have confidence in God’s mercy, for when you think He is a long way from you, He is often quite near.
Thomas Kempis
Lloyd John Ogilvie — The secret of life…
The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared.
Lloyd John Ogilvie
John Newton — I am not what I ought to be…
I am not what I ought to be,
I am not what I wish to be,
I am not what I hope to be;
but, by the grace of God,
I am not what I was.
John Newton
Max Lucado — To accept grace…
To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.
Max Lucado
David Crosby — What I have today I have because of His mercy…
What I have today I have because of His mercy. I did not earn it. I do not deserve it. I did not pay for it. I have no rights to it. I cannot keep it except for one thing- God’s mercy.
David Crosby
Andy Stanley — The God of Christianity never claims to be fair…
The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that he decided not to give us what we deserve- that’s mercy. In addition, God decided to give us exactly what we didn’t deserve- we call that grace.
Andy Stanley
Henry Ward Beecher — God appoints our graces…
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weaknesses.
Henry Ward Beecher
William Barclay — The word grace emphasizes…
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
William Barclay
A. M. Hunter — Grace means…
Grace means primarily the free, forgiving love of God in Christ to sinners and the operation of that love in the lives of Christians.
A. M. Hunter
John R. W. Stott — Grace is love that cares…
Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
John R. W. Stott
Annie Dillard — Beauty and grace are performed…
Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
Annie Dillard
Dwight L. Moody — A man can no more take in a supply of grace…
A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough for the next six months or take sufficient air into his lungs at one time to sustain life for a week. We must draw upon God’s boundless store of grace from day to day as we need it.
Dwight L. Moody
William Fenner — Grace comes not to take away a man’s affections…
Grace comes not to take away a man’s affections, but to take them up.
William Fenner
Reinhold Niebuhr — All men who live with any degree of serenity…
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Thomas Watson — None so empty of grace…
None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.
Thomas Watson
Henry Ward Beecher — God appoints our graces…
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weakness.
Henry Ward Beecher
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