Quotes About Mercy

The thing that awakens the deepest well of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven sin." —Oswald Chambers

C. S. Lewis wrote, "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." Jesus said if your brother "sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him" (Luke 17:4).

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

the cross is the centerpiece of the gospel message. It is truly the intersection of love and justice, judgment and grace, exactitude and mercy. The demands of the law call for perfection. But the law itself cannot transform the human heart. What this really means is that perfection cannot get us into heaven, but our faith in the Perfect One can. His justice comes hand in hand with love. And neither ever violates the other.

Though I used to complain about the indecency of the idea of God's wrath, I came to think that I would have to rebel against a God who wasn't wrathful at the sight of the world's evil. God isn't wrathful in spite of being love. God is wrathful because God is love.13

God's grace is beyond description. He lifted all of us over the walls of our own imprisonment.

Pe cruce, Isus ne-a d?ruit darul suprem al bun?t??ii nemeritate.

Someone has said that our sin scorches us most after we have received forgiveness, and not before. Once you realize how much you've been forgiven, you see how great that forgiveness really is.

The redeemed heart says, "The reason by which we live is the heart of mercy that does not keep a ledger.

So that man, the first one, knew what we know now: our hour is short, eternity is long. With this knowledge came pity and mercy, so we spared others for the later, more intricate, more mysterious benefits of love.

They peered in at the merry-go-round which lay under a dry rattle and roar of wind-tumbled oak trees. Its horses, goats, antelopes, zebras, speared through their spines with brass javelins, hung contorted as in a death rictus, asking mercy with their fright-colored eyes, seeking revenge with their panic-colored teeth.

Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people" (Hebrews 2:17).

Rich or poor, strong or weak, who among us has not begged God for a second chance?

On men reprieved by its disdainful mercy, the immortal sea confers in its justice the full privilege of desired unrest.

What the hell are you getting so upset about? he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. I thought you didn't believe in God. I don't, she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. 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.

I don't,' she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. '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.

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. MATTHEW 7:1–2.

To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.

Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away.

Rogar a Dios que sea bueno contigo porque lo que te aterroriza es que Dios no sea bueno contigo.

Foolish woman, don't despair. My justice is My mercy. 5

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.