Quotes About Mercy

They thought they were employing an economy-saving doctrine of situational leniency, but they somehow failed to understand that by coming up with a calculus to determine who was big enough and important enough to command jurisprudential mercy, they were simultaneously making a calculation about who was small enough and unimportant enough not to qualify.

The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.

Even when God is coming towards his people in ways of mercy, he sometimes takes such methods as that they may think themselves but ill treated.

When God pardons sin he quite abolishes it, casts it behind his back.

it is a great mercy to be reclaimed and called home when we go astray, though it be by a tempest.

God will delight to show them mercy, will reckon their conversion a return for all the expense he has been at upon them. There is always joy in heaven. God rejoiceth in all his works, but particularly in the works of his grace. He rejoiceth to do good to penitent sinners, with his whole heart and his whole soul. He rejoiceth not only in the conversion of churches and nations, but even over one sinner that repenteth, though but one.

though he offered himself once for all, yet that one offering thus becomes a continual offering.

mic.6.7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?† mic.6.8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?†

Those whom God pardons must be made to know what their sin deserved, and how miserable they would have been if they had been unpardoned, that God's mercy may be the more magnified.

mic.7.18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. mic.7.19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

The perfecting of God's mercies to us must be waited for in a humble observance of his institutions.

I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee

Those that would find mercy with men must seek it of God, who has all hearts in his hands, and turns them as he pleases.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Ba???lamay?n. Ba???lama, ba???lamadan önce suçlar; suçlayarak,kusuru [suçu] olumlayarak, onu geri al?namaz k?lar, vurmay? (coup) suçluluÄŸa (culpabilité) kadar götürür; böylece art?k hiçbir ÅŸey onar?lamaz, verme ve ba???lama olanakl? olmaktan ç?kar. Yaln?zca masumiyeti ba???la. Seni ba???lad???m için beni ba???la.

Grace just is. Nobody can explain it, and it's not something you can deserve. Whether you recognize it or not, whether you feel grateful for it or not, it just is. Guilty or innocent, condemned or redeemed, when you think that you can't go on, and when you think you've already gone on, grace is wider and deeper than you think, and it can change far more that you ever imagined. There is no place where anything begins or ends, but by grace, everything comes in it's time.

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.

Give me strength to forgive. Because he who forgives is the greatest. And I know I cannot forget.

Kad bi Bog kažnjavao za svako u?injeno zlo, ne bi na zemlji ostalo nijedno živo bi?e

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!