Quotes about Mercy
Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer
— Charles Spurgeon
Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.
— John Wesley
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
— DL Moody
Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.
— John Milton
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
— Charles Spurgeon
If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
— CS Lewis
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
— John Bunyan
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
— JC Ryle
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
— George Bernard Shaw
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.
— Joseph Addison
God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
— Oswald Chambers