R. C. Sproul Quotes About Mercy

Quotes about: Mercy

• A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

  R. C. Sproul

  Wrath, Idols, Justice

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2015

• God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

  R. C. Sproul

  God, Faith, Christian

• God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.

  R. C. Sproul

  Sovereign, Mercy, Individual

• 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

  R. C. Sproul

  Fall, Thinking, Justice

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.94, Hendrickson Publishers

• Grace and mercy are never deserved.

  R. C. Sproul

  Grace And Mercy, Grace, Mercy

• It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Justice, Atonement, Virtue

• Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

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  Grace, Fallen World, Definitions

  R. C. Sproul (2012). “God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children”, p.120, David C Cook

• By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

  R. C. Sproul

  Differences, Justice, Definitions

  Twitter post from Apr 17, 2017

• We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

  R. C. Sproul

  Faith, Religious, Long

• We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy----- He is just as glorified by His justice.

  R. C. Sproul

  Thinking, Justice, Mercy

• The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

  R. C. Sproul

  Thinking, Talking, Justice

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

  R. C. Sproul

  Capacity To Love, Incredibles, Mercy

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2016

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