In
short, Jesus moved the emphasis from God's holiness (exclusive) to God's mercy
(inclusive). Instead of the message "no undesirables allowed" he proclaimed,
"In God's kingdom there are no undesirables." Philip Yancey
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our
ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this
mercy there would be no freedom to pray. - John
Calvin
For just as it is by operation of providence that all good things exist, so it
is by its permission that all bad things are changed into good. In this way in
fact God’s power, wisdom and mercy are shown forth through Christ our
Redeemer
-- his mercy and his justice, the power of grace and the weakness of nature, the
beauty of everything in the association of opposites, the approval of the good,
and the malice and punishment of the wicked. - Albert The Great
Not
called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear
down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of
sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen
to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned
entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters,
and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face,
whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart
and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the
world. - William Booth
And
now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to
accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time,
now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto
you? - George Whitefield
Trust
in mercy always implies that we have no hope on the score of justice. If we had
anything to expect from justice, we should not look to mercy. The human heart is
too proud to throw itself upon mercy while it presumes itself to have a valid
claim to favor on the score of justice. Nay more, to appeal to mercy when we
might rightfully appeal to justice is never demanded either by God’s law or
gospel, nor can it be in harmony with our relations to Jehovah’s government. In
fact, the thing is, in the very nature of the mind, impossible. - Charles G.
Finney
In
short, Jesus moved the emphasis from God's holiness (exclusive) to God's mercy
(inclusive). Instead of the message "no undesirables allowed" he proclaimed,
"In God's kingdom there are no undesirables." Philip Yancey
For just as it is by operation of providence that all good things exist, so it
is by its permission that all bad things are changed into good. In this way in
fact God’s power, wisdom and mercy are shown forth through Christ our
Redeemer
-- his mercy and his justice, the power of grace and the weakness of nature, the
beauty of everything in the association of opposites, the approval of the good,
and the malice and punishment of the wicked. - Albert The Great
Not
called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear
down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of
sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen
to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned
entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters,
and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face,
whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart
and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the
world. - William Booth
And
now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to
accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time,
now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto
you? - George Whitefield
Trust
in mercy always implies that we have no hope on the score of justice. If we had
anything to expect from justice, we should not look to mercy. The human heart is
too proud to throw itself upon mercy while it presumes itself to have a valid
claim to favor on the score of justice. Nay more, to appeal to mercy when we
might rightfully appeal to justice is never demanded either by God’s law or
gospel, nor can it be in harmony with our relations to Jehovah’s government. In
fact, the thing is, in the very nature of the mind, impossible. - Charles G.
Finney