Quotes About Mercy

Then the question becomes, "How do we treat sinners?

forgiveness must be taught and practiced, as one would practice any difficult craft.

the sound of a man forgiving.

forgiveness, and only forgiveness, can begin the thaw in the guilty party.

Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.

Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.

Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be

Jesus requires—no, demands—a response of forgiveness.

We're all bastards but God loves us anyway.

La pregunta final estuvo preocupando a los judíos por siglos después que Malaquías y los otros profetas desaparecieron de la escena. No veían milagros, ni intervenciones espectaculares, y no habían escuchado nuevos mensajes del Señor. ¿Se había olvidado Dios de ser misericordioso? ¿Se había tapado los oídos a sus gemidos? El Antiguo Testamento termina con una nota de desilusión, anhelos no cumplidos, y remota esperanza.

The One who had the right to destroy the world—and had nearly done so once in Noah's day—chose instead to love the world, at any cost.

What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?

The free offer of grace extends not just to the undeserving but to those who in fact deserve the opposite: to Ku Klux Klanners as well as civil rights marchers, to P.

Because of Jesus, I can never say about a person, "She must be suffering because of some sin she committed"; Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain.

Like grace, forgiveness has about it the maddening quality of being undeserved, unmerited, unfair.

why God asks us to forgive: because that is what God is like.

There is one major flaw in the law of revenge, however: it never settles the score.

Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.

Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.

Forgiveness may be unfair—it is, by definition—but at least it provides a way to halt the juggernaut of retribution.

Calvary broke up the logjam between justice and forgiveness. By accepting onto his innocent self all the severe demands of justice, Jesus broke forever the chain of ungrace.

forgiveness is an act of faith.

By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out.

the Gospels make clear the connection: God forgives my debts as I forgive my debtors. The reverse is also true: Only by living in the stream of God's grace will I find the strength to respond with grace toward others.