Quotes about Mercy
God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.
— Max Lucado
As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.
— Matt Redman
Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
— Catherine of Siena
Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.
— John Calvin
A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
If you pour a pail full of water on the floor of your house, it makes a great show, but if you throw it into the sea, there is no sign of it. So, afflictions considered in themselves, we think are very great, but let them be considered with the sea of god's mercies we enjoy, and then they are not so much, they are nothing in comparison.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
This is the rhetoric of the Spirit of God' he said, 'to extenuate evil things, and to amplify good things: if a cross comes to make the cross but little, but if there is a mercy to make the mercy great.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Now just as God lets out a great deal of his power in working miracles in smaller things, so he lets out a great deal of goodness and mercy, in comforting and rejoicing the hearts of his people, in little things, as well as in great.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
he who claims to believe in Christ must rejoice in all Christ's judgments.
— Jerome
nothing is so displeasing to God as an impenitent heart. Impenitence is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.
— Jerome
To remember no more is God's way of expressing absolute forgiveness.
— Jerry Bridges