Quotes About Mercy

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

My business is to forgive others.

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Everybody just needs a second chance.

Everyone makes mistakes and everyone deserves a second chance.

The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.

You only get one shot at a second chance.

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

Maybe everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. If I can be perfect why can't you?

Jesus keeps the Sabbath with an eye to the weightier matters of the law, which are justice, mercy, and truth. Jesus keeps the Sabbath as an adult. Children are very worried about keeping the rules, and forcing other people to keep the rules. But children might keep rules so rigidly that they actually violate the rules. That's how the Pharisees keep the law. They are childish law keepers. Jesus is a mature law-keeper, and He calls His disciples to keep the law in the same way.

Mercy is Truth clothed; judgment is Truth naked.

He offers total mercy and forgiveness to all who will accept it by trusting Him and repenting of their sins, but He does not, and cannot, give forgiveness to those who will not receive His gift. Gifts are freely given and freely received. Heaven cannot be forced on a creature with free will.

Kennedy: You mean it's not a matter of good deeds versus bad deeds, a kind of moral bookkeeping? Lewis: No indeed. Look at the thief on the cross. He made it to paradise even though his life's red ink certainly outweighed the black. Kennedy:

St. Thomas thus detects a primary source of presumption in seeking genuinely good things, like human happiness on earth, as if we did not need divine grace to attain them; and in the hope that we can obtain God's pardon and mercy without our confessing and repenting of sin.

Our civilization has moved through three world views: from paganism (no pity and no pacifism) to Christianity (pity but not pacifism) to modernity (pity and pacifism). It is now moving to postmodernity, which is a new pacifism, a pacifism without spiritual warfare, a war on the very notion of spiritual warfare, and a war without pity or mercy for its enemy

a God without wrath saves a man without sin by mercy without judgment for a Heaven without a Hell through a Christ without a cross.

There is a legend that in every age God spares the world the destruction it deserves only because there are a certain number of Abrahams, righteous men and women who keep the world alive by their righteousness and their prayers, by the mass and the gravity of their righteousness reverberating on the walls of the divine mercy. No one but God knows who these righteous are or how many there are.

is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He

we forgive those who trespass

God doesn't love me because of what I can do for him. He just loves me - even when I've done nothing at all.

If I have learned anything it is that pity is more intelligent than hatred, that mercy is better than justice, that if one walks around the world with friendly eyes one makes good friends.