Quotes About Mercy

Forgiveness has no deadline.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

In addition, forgiveness is crucial to deliverance from the Evil One, because a bitter heart gives him a foothold in our lives.

12For I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sins no more.

What is all the suffering for if not so we can see how alike we are, and not alone? Where will the mercy come from, if not from us?

But what does it all add up to? What is all the suffering for if not so we can see how alike we are, and not alone? Where will the mercy come from, if not from us?

Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?

I know once you repent, Jesus himself isn't big on punishment, but according to all the Old Testament stories, I ever heard, his was not above it

Más que un ejército hiriendo vence un héroe perdonando.

Grace for the case is grace for your condition.

intercession is impossible until we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts as well.

Far may it be from my lord, that while a tyrant is restrained by fear after cutting down only two or three men, the sword of him who is the master of all Christian mercy should run riot for the slaughter of so many souls.

So we were back in the Children's Pavilion, and there was again the familiar scene: the mothers with their nearly dead, the false face of mercy, the Slaughter of the Innocents.

a common burden so many Christians have unwittingly carried, namely, that watching over us is God, an unstable parent, who is right off the bat harsh, vindictive, at best begrudgingly merciful, and mainly interested in whether we've read and understood the fine print; if not, God has no recourse but to punish us.

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself. Cantor

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself. Cantor illustrated the concept of infinity for his students by telling them that there was once a man who had a hotel with an infinite number of rooms, and the hotel was fully occupied.

a reaction to God's kindness, not an action to earn it.

God forgives you your sins." I say right back, "And I forgive him his.

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without awareness that I'm carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”