Ask me Quote by Anya Seton

“Mercy is God's favour that holds back from us what we deserve. Grace is God's favour that gives us what we do not deserve.”

— Rolfe Barnard

The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.

— Max Lucado

GRACE is when God gives us what we DON'T deserve! MERCY is when God DOESN'T give us what we DO deserve!

— Nishan Panwar

There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of…

— Max Lucado

Mercy is not giving someone what they deserve. Grace is giving someone what they don't deserve. Extend God's wisdom in your relationships.

— Andrew Wommack

It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.

— Julian of Norwich

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

— John Bevere

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch…

— William Ames

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in…

— Saint Ambrose

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

— Louis L'Amour

Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

— Edmund Spenser