Quotes About Mercy

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

On those days when we are not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we are actually saying is, 'Thanks, but I don't want to become more like the Savior today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today.' Perhaps those are the times when we need to pray the hardest, the times it becomes clear that a change in behavior is not enough--that we must have a change in nature.

I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty--guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard--but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and strength, the power and mercy it affords us.

Deus misereatus mei (May God compassionate me)

From the darkness of my hiding place, I would ask God to forgive the transgressors and have mercy on every man, as he himself had sown the seeds of weakness.

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SIMPLICITY is practicing a lifestyle that is increasingly free of excess, greed, covetousness, and other forms of dependence on the things of this world. The Holy Spirit works through simplicity to release spiritual gifts such as hospitality, mercy, and giving... to live free of anxiety, and to better take care of this Earth.

Are you so arrogant that you think yourself capable of sinning so badly that God's mercy is not great enough? . . .

For I've realized more and more with each year I've lived: There is no worthier work for the person who has been geared with the ability to see even a small part of God's mercy than to serve Him and to keep vigil and to pray for those people whose sight is still clouded by the shadow of worldly matters.

the world is just as harsh a taskmaster as any other lord, and in the end it's a lord without mercy.

If there is such a thing as fate, it's not that life is already written and we're simply unwitting figures in lines of spiritual code–it's that we are at the mercy of things imposed on us in childhood. — Simon Van Booy, The Presence of Absence (Godine, 2022)

There but for the grace of God goes God.

God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.

Forgiveness is a form of the highest love

Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.

Compassion is an essential element of love.

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

The greatest sin is sinning against love.

Pity melts the mind to love.

Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

God is great. God is faithful. And His love is set upon us. We come as we are, with trembling trust.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

He who does not love sinners cannot pray aright for them.

The person who has earned love the least needs it the most.