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Quotes About Mercy

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
~ Frederick Buechner
Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.
~ Gayle Forman
You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.
~ Glen Duncan
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
~ Hannah More
But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.
~ John Calvin
And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.
~ Jonah
Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.
~ Jonathan Morris
Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?
~ Joseph Prince
The act of God injures no one.
~ Juvenal
Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.
~ Lady Jane Grey
We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.
~ Laurence Sterne
Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.
~ Marcus Eremita
If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.
~ Martin Luther
I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.
~ Martin Luther
You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.
~ Max Lucado
God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same
~ Max Lucado
Whenever we cover our brother's sin, God will cover ours; whenever we tell people about our brother's guilt, God will do the same about ours.
~ Poemen
Let us allow God to fill our hearts with his goodness and mercy.
~ Pope Francis
Don't be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.
~ Pope Francis
God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.
~ Pope Francis
If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
~ R. C. Sproul
Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.
~ Robinson Jeffers
Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness).
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy