Mercy

“To render good for evil is divine. To render good for good is human. To render evil for evil is brutish. But to render evil for good is devilish!”

“There is nothing in the world that renders a man more unlike to a saint, and more like to Satan, than to argue from God's mercy to sinful liberty; from divine goodness to licentiousness.”

“Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.”

“I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.”

“A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.”

“Your mercies are more than your afflictions.”

“There is comfort concerning such infirmities, in that your very sins move him to pity more than to anger. This text is plain for it, for he suffers with us under our infirmities, and by infirmities are meant sins, as well as other miseries.”

“Peace of conscience, is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.”

“Mercy should make us ashamed to sin. Wrath should make us afraid to sin.”

“Mercy is the special commendation of divine love.”

“This is the bottom of all peace, confidence, and consolation, the grace and mercy of our Maker, of the God of the whole earth.”

“Had not God set forth the Lord Christ, all the angels in heaven and men on earth could not have apprehended that there had been any such thing in the nature of God as this grace of pardoning mercy.”

“No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times at His throne of grace.”

“We see that God did not only pardon David but, after much bruising, gave him wise Solomon to succeed him in the kingdom.”

“As there is no mercy, which man's heart will not abuse, so there is no judgment, which it will not proudly scorn.”

“You are not worthy of having a piece of bread to put in your mouth, nor a thread to cover your skin.”

“All that 'mercy' can do for us as 'sinners,' and all that 'grace' can do for us as 'needy ones,' are here set before us.”

“He does not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax.”

“He has followed us with mercies, reproofs, and expostulations, and yet we persist in iniquity.”

“Therefore, despair not, O aged sinner! but return unto the Lord, and you shall be happy forever.”

“Will you not be made clean?" "As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live.”

“His mercy to his own soon comforted them for all their toils and conflicts, in a land flowing with milk and honey—a type of that inheritance awaiting his saints now, after conflict is over.”

“It is of mercy that we still live and have opportunities of glorifying God for that free grace by which we live, and for that loving-kindness which endures forever.”

“Think, then, of the cross and his rich mercy, his free, immeasurable, everlasting mercy, whose blood makes the foulest clean.”

“Then, through rich mercy, there is solid hope, that the child born on earth, is born an heir of heaven.”

“His mercy is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him and keep his covenant.”

“So is it over a lost world that the heart of God has gone forth pouring itself out in all its unutterable tenderness of compassion.”

“How, to the life, doth he explain the mercy of God, and the misery of man, in the lost sheep, in the lost groat, in the lost son!”

“How often did holy Moses by his tears—quench the wrath of an angry God!”

“But if we have this for a foundation truth, that there is more mercy in Christ than sin in us, there can be no danger in thorough dealing.”

“As when a physician comes into an house where many are sick, and cures one that is desperate, it is an encouragement to the rest to rely upon his skill.”

“We do maintain that believers, according to their means, must support believers who are subject to poverty.”

“But is not this great grace, that we should thus be called upon to come to God for mercy?”

“God is not willing (in the preceptive sense) that any should perish.”

“In the law, he who could not bring a lamb for an offering, if he brought but two turtledoves, it sufficed.”

“If there be any pardon with God,” says one of another age, “ it is such as becomes him to give.”

“Or is his grace so far gone, and so near spent, that now he has not enough to pardon, and secure, and save one sinner more?”

“If he made thee to differ from others in the enjoyment of his mercy, do thou also differ from others in the sounding of his praise.”

“For what is grace, but love looking with favor on undeserving worms—on lost ones, whose whole desert is punishment—on criminals, whose silent lips can urge no plea— whose downcast heads confess deep guilt.”

“Included in this mercy are forgiveness and righteousness and eternal life,—is not all this truly blessed?”

“Merciful effects are ascribed unto the mercy of God as the proper cause of them, and therefore the mercy attributed to God must be properly an inward principle in God, whence those effects do proceed.”

“As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.” He never afflicts them willingly.”

“The second remedy against this device of Satan is, seriously to consider, That there is nothing in the world that so provokes God to be wroth and angry, as men's taking encouragement from God's goodness and mercy—to do wickedly.”

“He will break their bones, and pierce their hearts—but he will cure them of this malady.”

“None will claim mercy more of others than those who deserve due severity.”

“What was there in thy former life, but misery, to move God to shew mercy to thee?”

“Father, have mercy on them; and mercies speed on rapid wing.”

“God feeds the sinner, keeps off evils from him, bemiracles him with mercy; but the sinner not only forgets God’s mercies, but abuses them.”

“If you welcome repentance, knocking at your door from God, it shall knock at God's door of mercy for you.”

“Secondly, There is comfort concerning such infirmities, in that your very sins move him to pity more than to anger.”

“Though aggravating circumstances be never so many, yet he will multiply his mercies as fast as thou canst the sins thou hast committed.”

“For such black spots which mercy wears upon its face, makes it appear more beautiful.”

“There are others beside you who will observe how God deals with you. (1) It is to you and them that God wants to show His sovereignty and freeness in manifesting His mercy to whomever and whenever He wills.”

“Be thy guilt never so great, if thou wilt come into covenant with God, here is mercy for thee, and therefore make this use of it.”

“In the course of our life, after we are in a state of grace, if we are overtaken with any sin, we must remember to have recourse first to Christ's mercy to pardon us, and then to the promise of his Spirit to govern us. 3.”

“I gave Christ's poor good words; I did bid them be warmed—but I should have clothed and fed them.”

“The third penal affection is, fear and trembling before God's judgments and his threatenings, a fear of the majesty of God, whom we have offended, which is able to send us to hell if his mercies were not beyond our deserts.”

“Patience and longsuffering mark all his doings: he loves to spare; he lingers over his handiwork, loath to destroy it even when vile.”

“Ah, Lord, this mercy I humbly beg, that you would rather take me into your own hand, and do anything with me, than give me up to those sad errors to which thousands have married their souls and are in the way of perishing forever.”

“Has He forgiven them pounds, and shall they not forgive a few pence?”

“We are directed to pray for one another in this view, that, if it is the Lord's pleasure to prolong life and to restore health, our sense of the mercy may be heightened by the consideration that it is bestowed in answer to prayer.”

“Scribes and doctors continue devils in the chair, while harlots commence saints from the stews, and the thief proceeds a convert on the cross.”

“Surely one may voluntarily assume pains and penalties for even a guilty man without approving of his wrong, or without being like him in moral character.”

“And when we find ourselves to hate and leave sin in some measure, then fasten our souls by faith, as much as may be, upon the mercy of God in Jesus Christ.”

“He might have denied you Christ, peace, and pardon also; and then your case would have been woeful indeed.”

“Know for a certainty that the Lord records all the mercies that ever he gave you, from the beginning to the end of your life. 'Remember, O my people, from Acacia unto Gilgal,' etc.”

“This longsuffering, or tender pity to the lost, is not forgetfulness, or slackness in promise, or indifference to sin, or weakness, or relaxation of law, or good-natured connivance at evil.”

“Health is a blessing, a great mercy, enabling us to relish the comforts of life, and to be useful in our generation.”

“It is not the thing given, but the merciful and pitiful hearts of the giver , be the thing never so small, as was the poor widow’s mite; and therefore all our alms must proceed from a pitiful heart.”