Grace & Mercy
80 quotes: 22 by Keith Craft, 58 from other voices.
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- He that showeth mercy when it may be best spared, will receive mercy when it shall be most needed.
- Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
- Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
- I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
- I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
- If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.
- If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
- Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
- It is better to hold back a truth than to speak it ungraciously.
- It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- It were better to be of no church than bitter for any.
- Late repentance is seldom true, but true repentance is never too late.
- Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
- Love is more just than justice; compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
- My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.
- Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so.
- Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
- No one has a right to mercy who can not himself show mercy.
- Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
- People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
- Remorse and repentance are two very different things. Repentance leads back to life; but remorse ends often in the painless apathy and fatal mortification of despair.
- So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sins, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.
- The church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones, a nursery for the care of weak ones, a hospital for the healing of those who need assiduous care.
- The man who has never made a mistake has no need of an eraser; just so the man who has never done anything wrong has no need of a Redeemer.
- The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
- The power of gentleness is irresistible.
- The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.
- There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
- There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
- To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
- Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
- Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
- We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
- We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.
- When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.
- You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.
- You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.
- You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
- Big Thought: He is a God who chose not to grade on a merit system, but save on a grace system.