Quotes About Mercy

You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

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

The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus

Those who want to power know no mercy.

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.

Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah.

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.