Quotes about Mercy

If ever there came a morning when mercy and simple good fortune took to their heels and fled, grace alone might have to do.

Here's an idea you can use in your witnessing as people throw out their objections to believing in God. Many will say, 'God isn't fair, and I'm glad. If He were fair, you and I wouldn't be here today. We'd be in hell. What we really need is not God's fairness, but His mercy.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

True freedom only occurs when we break off the shackles of fear and embrace a culture of mercy and grace.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.

People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

You are coming to a King, Large petitions with you bring For his grace and power are such None can ever ask too much.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.

The sun shines even on the wicked.