Quotes About Mercy

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

no one belongs to anyone. We're all cut off at birth with a knife and left at the mercy of strangers. You hear that? Strangers. I know what you want to do. I know you're going to go away to be a soldier. Well-you can go to hell. I'm not responsible. I'm just another stranger. Birth I can give you-but life I cannot. I can't keep anyone alive. Not anymore.

Nimmer tun ist höchster Buß),

Open, Lord, my mouth to bless your holy name; cleanse my heart from all empty, evil, or distracting thoughts; enlighten my mind, enkindle my heart, that I may recite this Office worthily, attentively, and devoutly, and may merit to be heard in the sight of your divine majesty. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen." Latin

Only when you accept the bad news of the gospel does the good news make any sense. The grace, restoration, reconciliation, forgiveness, mercy, patience, power, healing, and hope of the gospel are for sinners. They are only meaningful to you if you admit that you have the disease and realize that it is terminal.

The decision to forgive is first a heart transaction between you and God. It is a willingness to give up your desire to hold onto (and in some way punish the person for) his offense against you. Instead, you entrust the person and the offense to God, believing that he is righteous and just. You make a decision to respond to this person with an attitude of grace and forgiveness.

Even if he never does this, I am called to maintain an attitude of forgiveness toward the offender.

Godly conflict is an act of compassion!

Forgiveness Involves Canceling a Debt

Forgiveness Is Costly, But Not Forgiving Is More Costly

An entrenched refusal to forgive is a sign that you have not known God's amazing forgiveness yourself.

Mark 11:25 is talking about forgiveness as a heart attitude before God.

When I consider someone's sin as I stand before the Lord, I am called to have an attitude of forgiveness toward the person who sinned against me. This is non-negotiable.

Luke 17:3, on the other hand, is talking about forgiveness as a horizontal transaction between me and the offender. This is often referred to as reconciliation.

I can only grant forgiveness to the other person if he repents and admits he has sinned against me.

Stalin raised a toast: "We will mercilessly destroy anyone who, by his deeds or his thoughts—yes, his thoughts!—threatens the unity of the socialist state. To the complete destruction of all enemies, themselves and their kin!"29

I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy.

Actors are at the mercy of roles that are offered.

What does the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Though your sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them as white as snow.

for that there was no atonement; but though forgiveness was impossible, forgetfulness was possible still

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Faults are hidden at night: every blemish is forgiven.