Quotes about Mercy
When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.
— Jerry Bridges
When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
— Corrie Ten Boom
There is no evil that the father's love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.
— Timothy Keller
The only way love punishes in by suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
— JI Packer
God's love never ceases. Never... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.
— Max Lucado
Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love
— Mother Teresa
I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.
— John Piper
We have nothing in our account but zeroes! And yet, because of His great love, God forgave us our astronomical debt.
— David Jeremiah
God is love so all God does is loving.
— Scot McKnight