There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.
Interpretation
God's mercy is vast and immeasurable, extending forgiveness and blessings regardless of one's sins.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the boundless nature of God's mercy. It suggests that no matter how significant a person's sins may be or the time they have spent away from God, His forgiveness is always available. The imagery of 'great sinners' receiving 'great favours' portrays the idea that God's love and mercy transcend human shortcomings and limitations, offering a pathway to redemption and joy in the divine presence.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the nature of forgiveness, a pastor might reference this quote to inspire hope among the congregation.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
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