Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

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

God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.

Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way." If this goes on day after day after day, year after year, month after month, it would understandable for God to say, "I've given you ten trillion tries. You're finished." But it's not. So in that sense, His grace is always surprising, never ceases to be amazing and His mercy is remarkably outrageous.

Jesus receives us with all of our limitations, He bring us the mercy of the Father who forgives us, and transforms our heart, rendering it a new heart, capable of loving Him, who loved His own to the end (cf. John 13:1). And this love is manifested in his mercy. Jesus always forgives us.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?

There's no limit to God's love.

God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our souls, but the manifest forgiveness by which we have mercy on one another and so give expression to the fact that He is living, by His mercy, in our own hearts.

... me He now delights to spare.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.