“Suppose you have shown a lot of mercy to someone. But they haven’t ever thanked you or acknowledged what you have done. When that happens to me, my instinct is to want to choke that person. But when you know God’s mercy to you in Christ, when you know the forgiveness of sins, your hands are so full of God’s good gifts of mercy and grace that you don’t have a hand free to choke anyone.”

“Suppose you have shown a lot of mercy to someone. But they haven’t ever thanked you or acknowledged what you have done. When that happens to me, my instinct is to want to choke that person. But when you know God’s mercy to you in Christ, when you know the forgiveness of sins, your hands are so full of God’s good gifts of mercy and grace that you don’t have a hand free to choke anyone.”

— C. John Miller