Quotes about Mercy

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

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

Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Because we have offered no provision for sons and daughters who fall, many of our Adams and our Eves are hiding in the bushes.

He's so good to give us the bitter moments of life that, in his mercy, keep us dependent on him, that remind us that this earth is not a believer's home, that so much "better" awaits us in every way. And he gives us the sweet moments to encourage us in our sanctification journey, to give us a taste of the eternal, of his goodness. He gives us both because he knows what we need better than we know ourselves. And his timing is always perfect. And aren't we grateful?

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.