Quotes about Mercy

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Love gives up the right to get even.

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

The King, full of mercy and goodness, very far from chastising me, embraces me with love, makes me eat at His table, serves me with His own hands, gives me the key of His treasures; He converses and delights Himself with me incessantly, in a thousand and a thousand ways, and treats me in all respects as His favorite. It is thus I consider myself from time to time in His holy presence.

Or consider the mainstream religions. We are enjoined in Micah to do justly and love mercy; in Exodus we are forbidden to commit murder; in Leviticus we are commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves; and in the Gospels we are urged to love our enemies. Yet think of the rivers of blood spilled by fervent followers of the books in which these well-meaning exhortations are embedded. In

See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

I do kind of wish he had chosen another way to do it. But I'll take grace anywhere I can get it.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Holy Communion is offered to all, as surely as the living Jesus Christ is for all, as surely as all of us are not divided in him, but belong together as brothers and sisters, all of us poor sinners, all of us rich through his mercy. Amen.