God's Mercy - Kindness
God is more willing to pardon than to punish. Mercy does more multiply in Him than sin in us. [ATFG]
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It is spiritual madness, it is the devil’s logic to argue thus: My sins are great, therefore I will not go to Christ, I dare not rest nor lean on Christ. The soul should reason thus: The greater my sins are, the more I stand in need of mercy, of pardon, and therefore I will go to Christ, who delights in mercy, who pardons sin for his own name’s sake, who is as able and willing to forgive pounds as pence. (Micah 7:18; Isa. 43:25). [PRASD]
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Almost the only true thing Christ’s enemies ever said against him was, “This man receiveth sinners”. [ROOS]
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This pity of Jesus shows itself in his readiness to receive and tenderly treat the weakest and most sickly of his flock. [ROOS]
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Forsake your sins, or you cannot find mercy. You cannot be married to Christ except you be divorced from sin. [ASGTH]
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If you come (to God) in His Christ, and set your heart to please Him, making this your chief concern, He will graciously accept you. [ASGTH]
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If we are overtaken with any sin, we must remember to have recourse first to Christ’s mercy to pardon us, and then to the promise of his Spirit to govern us. [TBR]
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We are stronger after defeats, because hidden corruption, undiscerned before, is now discovered, and thence we are brought to make use of mercy pardoning and power supporting. [TBR]
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Disband the army of your sins, and God will sound a retreat to his judgments. [TDOR]
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Be as speedy in your repentance as you would have God speedy in his mercies. [TDOR]