Quotes About Mercy

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

A good thing can't be cruel.

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.

God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

Good things could happen to not so bad people.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all.

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.

Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!