Quotes About Mercy

When you fail to hold out God's standard, you rob your children of the mercy of the gospel.

The law of God is not easy for natural man. Its standard is high and cannot be achieved apart from God's supernatural grace. God's law teaches us our need of grace. When you fail to hold out God's standard, you rob your children of the mercy of the gospel.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.

If I see a spider in my house, I put it in a cup, and then I take it outside. I save it. What is wrong with me?

I'm not a spiteful man, never been. I always forgive. The final decision isn't mine, but God's. God knows what He does.

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.

It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.

Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.

When the Lord commands that we must forgive all men, that includes forgiving ourselves.

We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

Isn't it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!