Elijah Parish Lovejoy Quotes

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

The fact is you cannot talk about the love of God. The love of God has no meaning whatsoever unless you understand the judgment of God that all of us deserve.

I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

There is nothing at all that God won't forgive.

The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and returned to him, he remembered his covenant and delivered them from their distresses.

Our God is a forgiving God.

The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ.

Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

I rely on the promise, 'God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.'

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.