“Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to those who are failures. He is harsh to uptight, judgmental people, but merciful and gracious to the failures. He seems to draw out the smallest kernel of faith in each person that He's with. So, I presume that that's the way God is going to judge humanity.” PeopleWayPersonsSeemsHumanityJesusJudgingDrawsConsistentlySmallestHarshClueGraciousMercifulJudgmentalKernelUptightJudgmental People Author:Philip Yancey
“There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.” IfsWayTryingCharacterJesusMercyDoctrineMerciful Author:Hosea Ballou
“When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb.” IfsMenHas BeensJesusGreaterHe ManCrossesMercyDiedInfiniteNotionOddIncarnationTombsMercifulBabeCalvaryMercy Of God Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.” PersonsJesusReligiousAcknowledgeMerciful Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Again and again the Sermon on the Mount calls and challenges us to a life of radical discipleship. Note: when Jesus says 'Blessed are the . . . . merciful, peacmakers', and so on, he doesn't just mean that they themselves are blessed. He means that the blessing of God's kingdom works precisely through those people into the wider world. That is how God's kingdom comes. That's one thing to hear afresh.” PeopleWorldMeanJesusChallengesOne ThingBlessingBlessedNotesKingdomsRadicalAgain And AgainSermonsDiscipleshipMercifulSermon On The MountKingdom Come Author:N. T. Wright