Quotes About Mercy

You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit. Even the Lord's Prayer says it loud and clear: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Not others. What Jesus challenges us to do is to let go of the wrong done to you personally, not the wrong done to someone else. But most Christians incorrectly assume that this means that being a good christian means forgiving all sins, and the sinners.

Violence, from one angle, looked like mercy from another.

I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.

Your love is everlasting, it's an everlasting love. Your mercy is as new as every rising of the sun.

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love...

Law 13: When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interests, never to their mercy or gratitude.

Everyone makes mistakes. If you can't forgive others, then don't expect others to forgive you.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

Perhaps forgiveness is overrated,

God has never shown mercy on the poor.

The pleasure that forgiveness gives you can't be achieved from revenge.

Unless you repent, you too will all perish" (Luke 13:3, 5).

God's forgiveness does not imply that he tolerates sin; rather, he rejoices in a person's repentance, that the person has come to his senses, and that he has come to place himself at the mercy of God, knowing that he has no merit of his own. Accordingly, Jesus says, "There is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents" (Luke 15:10).

Upon the offender's repentance (v. 29; Luke 17:3), God requires us to forgive from the heart (v. 35).

God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden" (Romans 9:18), and therefore election is "arbitrary," but not in the pejorative sense.

We must forgive people because of our obedience to God and our compassion for them, so that we forgive for God's sake and for their sake. We should forgive because we are grateful for God's forgiveness toward us, not so that we could retain health and peace. We should not need a selfish motive to forgive others. We are able to show compassion on those who repent, because "God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us" (Romans 5:5).

We must forgive others because we are not our own. Since God commands us to forgive people when they repent, we have no right to withhold forgiveness when they repent: "So watch yourselves. 'If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him'" (Luke 17:3).

the blood of Jesus does not only remove us from judgment, but the picture given to us is that it hides us from the most terrible and destructive power in all of existence – the wrath of God manifested in all of its fierceness and violence.

Forgiveness belongs to anyone who has faith – this is not the mere appearance of piety, but a sincere heart that has been transformed by God's grace, and that freely extends forgiveness to others (v. 25; also Matthew 18:21-35).

We are not saved by our own goodness, because we have none, but we are saved by God's sovereign mercy.

Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden" (Romans 9:18).

Try to remember. Have you ever felt mercy in your heart where there was once hatred? Peace where there was once turmoil? Love where there was once greed and lust? Humiliation where there was once self-righteousness?

He has no need of anything that you give him, as if you can give him anything, but you have need of him to give to you, and you are always entirely at his mercy. People sometimes forget that, or they simply refuse to acknowledge it.