Quotes about Mercy

And I, miserable, believed that more mercy was to be shown to the fruits of the earth than men, for whom they were created.

Thus a true sacrifice is every work which is done that we may be united to God in holy fellowship, and which has a reference to that supreme good and end in which alone we can be truly blessed. And therefore even the mercy we show to men, if it is not shown for God's sake, is not a sacrifice.

And that you are yet alive is due to God, who spares you that you may be admonished to repent and reform your lives.

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say as we forgive our debtors. When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

There can be no mercy without truth.

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never separable in Catholic pastoral life.

Dear God, Thank you for waking me up today and for your everlasting love and never ending mercy and for my blessed day ahead.

God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin.

Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.