Quotes About Mercy

Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.

Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.

Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.

You have been forgiven, so act like it!

We pardon to the extent that we love.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

Forgiveness does not replace justice.

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.