Quotes About Mercy

Our heavenly Father is great in mercy, He feeds and clothes us everyday, We will worship and humbly learn from him For our Lord clothes the grass of the field.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

We know that in some way, incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransomed penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin, and made mercy available to those who believe in his holy name.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Here we live in the shadow of the steeple, where the holy rubber meets the road, all crookedly blessed in God's mercy, in the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, race-riot-creating, oddball-hating, soul-shaking, love-and-fear-making, heartbreaking town of Freehold, New Jersey. Let the service begin.

compassion is a wonderful virtue but don't waste it on those undeserving.

He may be angry at our rebellion, but he is never angry at our return.

Grace does not preclude holiness, but makes it possible. Holiness springs from the fountain of grace.

God does not let our failures to keep his imperatives erase the indicative of his love for us.

Guilt should drive us to the cross, but grace must lead us from it.

Our works are made worthy of eternity by virtue of the mercy in him, rather than on the basis of the merit in them.

Our efforts before God will never earn us entry into his kingdom, or obligate him to love us.

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance; we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide.

Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession.

Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.

Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

We do not proclaim grace so that anyone will make light of sin or of our duty to resist it. We herald God's amazing mercy in order to join with the Spirit in stirring up in his people such a love for God that, when the day of evil comes, they will gladly put on the full armor he provides. Then, despite the hardships and the pain God's people may face in the battle, they will stand strong in the power of his might.

When God removes good works as a condition for his acceptance, he does not remove righteousness as a requirement for life.

Divine blessing flows from God's mercy rather than from our merit.

While we see our sin, God chooses to gaze upon his Son in us.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

Heaven have mercy on us all — Presbyterians and Pagans alike — for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Let him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.