Quotes About Mercy

God has never withheld love to teach me a lesson.

For humans—trapped in biology—there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in the ground like garbage.

If God has saved you, He has saved you by faith--plus nothing. God is not accepting any kind of good works for salvation. But after you are saved, God talks to you about your works.

The sin of David stands out like a tar-baby in a field of snow, like a blackberry in a bowl of cream. It may cause us to miss the greatness of the man. Remember that sin was the exception in David's life—not the pattern of it. The Word of God does not play down the sin of David; it does not whitewash the man. God doesn't say it is not sin. God is going to call it sin, and David will be punished for it.

My friend, after you have been saved, God is going to talk to you about good works. Until that time, God is not even interested in your 'good works' because what you call a good work, God calls dirty laundry. The righteousness of man is filthy rags in His sight (Isaiah 64:6). He doesn't want any of that. He wants to save you.

He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

The world will let a man serve the devil and quietly go to hell; no one lifts a finger to stop him or even says, "May God have mercy on your soul." But the world will never let a man serve Christ and go to heaven quietly. Everybody cries, "Stop, wait!" and does anything and everything to keep him back.

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, "I know it and will not cry for mercy.

Sé misericordioso contigo mismo. Busca a Dios en tu juventud y te ahorrarás muchas lágrimas de amargura.

let us not expect too much from our own hearts here below. At our best we shall find in ourselves daily cause for humiliation, and discover that we are needy debtors to mercy and grace every hour.

Existem duas mãos que nos ajudam na escalada para o céu. A mão de nossa fé agarra-se ao nosso Salvador; e a mão misericordiosa de nosso Salvador, plena de redenção, segura-nos com firmeza. Nossa mão agarra-se a Ele debilmente, e com facilidade se solta; mas a mão dEle segura-nos de forma poderosa e irresistível.

How true it is that the holiest saint in his humanness is a miserable sinner and a debtor to mercy and grace to the last moment of his existence

The door of mercy is set wide open. The door is not yet locked. The door can be opened. God's heart is full of love. God's heart is full of compassion. Whoever and whatever a person might have been, at midnight or at any time, whenever he returns to God, he will find God willing to receive him, ready to pardon him, and glad to have him at home. All things are ready. Whoever desires to enter can come in.

Señor, perdona todos mis pecados y, especialmente, los de omisión".

He believed that God was all merciful. Reason and sense might hint that a more pleasant manner of deliverance might be found, that some compromise might be effected, and many hardships be avoided. But faith told Moses that God was love, and would not give His people one drop of bitterness beyond what was absolutely needed.

In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. -Isaiah 63:9

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled. Psalm 6:2 Maria

The LORD will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

It's a cold, stark emptiness that has no laughter in it. No compassion, and no mercy. It's feral. Like the eyes of a hunting animal.

They say fifty lashes will kill a man. So I'll spare you the last one.

mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice

Whenever you interpret anything, you can read it two ways: in such a way that your interpretation creates mercy, and in such a way that it creates sacrifice.

Al ritiro dei novizi hai dato una definizione bellissima di grazia: «Grazia, o amore, o misericordia, sono tre versioni dei salmi. La coerenza è una grazia, e se è una grazia è una festa. Perché la grazia significa che tu ti trovi sul tavolo un dono, un augurio: è la tua festa. Questa è ogni istante del vivere cristiano. Può essere ogni ora del vivere cristiano, è la tua festa. Il tempo ci è dato per questa festa».