Quotes About Mercy

And I know that all that multitude of sins would disappear in an instant, even as a drop of water cast into a flaming furnace.d'Elbée, Jean du Coeur de Jésus

I know that all that multitude of sins would disappear in an instant, even as a drop of water cast into a flaming furnace.

Sometimes God comforts us directly, but that's not His only strategy. Normally He comforts us through His people—so if our lives aren't open to one another, they're closed to the Father's comfort. Let's share our lives; let's fellowship in suffering so that we can fellowship in His mercy.

Let no one among you say that God hath withheld the outpouring of His bounty unto you, for assuredly Gods mercy unto those to whom the Bayn is given hath been fulfilled and completed until the Day of Resurrection. Would that ye might believe in the signs of God.

It is better to guide one soul than to possess all that is on earth, for as long as that guided soul is under the shadow of the Tree of Divine Unity, he and the one who hath guided him will both be recipients of Gods tender mercy, whereas possession of earthly things will cease at the time of death. The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. This hath been Gods method in the past, and shall continue to be in the future!

Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Such affection and devotion, such mighty love and zeal are often far beyond me. Be merciful to me, O sweet, good, kind Jesus, and grant me, Your poor suppliant, sometimes at least to feel in Holy Communion a little of the tenderness of Your love, that my faith may grow stronger, that my hope in Your goodness may increase, and that charity, once perfectly kindled within me by tasting heavenly manna, may never fail.

Seek a suitable time for thy meditation, and think frequently of the mercies of God to thee.

No se turbe, pues, ni tema tu corazón. Cree en Mí, y ten confianza en mi misericordia. Cuando piensas que estás lejos de Mí, estoy más cerca de ti regularmente. C1uando piensas que está todo casi perdido, entonces muchas veces está cerca la ganancia del merecer. No está todo perdido cuando alguna cosa te sucede contraria. No debes juzgar como sientes ahora, ni embarazarte ni acongojarte con cualquier contrariedad que te venga, como si no hubiese esperanza de remedio.

Although I know nothing against myself, yet I am not hereby justified,(4) because if Thy mercy were removed away, in Thy sight should no man living be justified.(5)

Whereupon then can I hope, or wherein may I trust, save only in the great mercy of God, and the hope of heavenly grace? For whether good men are with me, godly brethren or faithful friends, whether holy books or beautiful discourses, whether sweet hymns and songs, all these help but little, and have but little savour when I am deserted by God's favour and left to mine own poverty. There is no better remedy, then, than patience and denial of self, and an abiding in the will of God.

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.

And as there is no damnation to them that are engrafted in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit; so is there no health nor salvation to them that live after the flesh, though they babble ever so much of Christ, of Christ's passion, blod, and death, of the remission of sins, of the mercy of God, of the gospel, of the sweet promises of God, and of everlasting life.

We beseech thee, O heavenly Father, that we be never unmindful of this thy exceeding great kindness, nor unthankful for thy manifold and unspeakable mercies declared unto us in the glorious death of thy well-beloved Son; but so work thou in us through thy Holy Spirit, that we may be made worthy members of that body, whereof thy Son and our Saviour Jesus Christ is the Head.

Therefore, brothers, whensoever ye perceive that ye offend God in any thing, despair not, fly unto repentance, be sorry for your sinful living; bewail your wicked manners, thirst after strength to do the will of God, confess your sins from the very heart, call for grace, desire mercy, and pray unto God that he will forgive you your faults, and he will undoubtedly remit and forgive you all the faults, sins, and trespasses that ye ever committed against him.

Sins against God's mercy will bring the greatest and sorest judgments upon men's heads and hearts. Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.

God is a just as He is merciful.

Mercy is "Alpha," justice is "Omega."

Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.

While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like 'wormwood and gall'), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God's love, new every morning. God's mercy is not spent even with our worst misdeeds.