R. C. Sproul Quotes About Mercy
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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.
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A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
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God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
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Grace and mercy are never deserved.
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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.
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Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
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By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.
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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
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God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
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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.
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In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
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It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
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