Quotes About Mercy

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Behold not with anger the sins of man, but forgive and cleanse.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.

I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

God's love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God

The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.

Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.

Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up!