Quotes About Mercy

You and I are commanded—not urged, commanded—to keep no list of wrongs.

My salvation has nothing to do with my work and everything to do with the finished work of Christ on the cross.

Truth is, we don't get grace. But it sure can get us.

To forgive is to move on, not to think about the offense anymore. You don't excuse him, endorse her, or embrace them. You just route thoughts about them through heaven.

Remarkable. He forgave their sin before they even committed it. He offered mercy before they even sought it.

God's pursuing you

discipline should result in mercy, not misery.

Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.

Not one bad deed has deducted from my salvation. No good deed, if there are any, has enhanced it.

Before presenting the grace of God,we must understand the wrath of God.

Grace is a God who stoops.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cannot be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.

The God of my childhood was an old, white, Vandyck-bearded Father Time, who roared up thunder, then puffed out His cheeks and blew down hurricanes on His errant children. He could be placated only if one fell prostrate, groveled and begged for mercy. I didn't like that God, but He did seem more real than a Maker who was just thought and spirit. I wished for a Someone in between.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Somewhere in my fatalism I had expected to die, accidentally, and never have the chance to walk up the stairs in the auditorium and gracefully receive my hard-earned diploma. Out of God's merciful bosom I had won reprieve.

We had cooked the food of a nation of racists, and despite the many opportunities, there were few stories of black servants poisoning white families. If that didn't show mercy, then I misunderstood the word.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Rule #12 We all make mistakes, and we all deserve a second chance.

Eddis stared at him for a long time, knowing that forgiving someone because you have to is not forgiving him at all.

You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.

Melody Carlson

How merciful a thing is man's ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it would have been if all those present could have known what was about to happen within a matter of seconds! For nothing short of pre-knowledge could have stopped the occurrence, so suddenly it sprang upon them.