Quotes about Mercy

I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak. (Ezek. 34:16)

Forgiveness is essential if we are to guard our hearts with all diligence.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Grace is not something for which I must look in my heart. It is in the heart of God.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

And this filmmaker has the most extraordinary epiphany! He realizes that there is as much merit in trying to ease people's suffering for a moment as there is in "focusing" on it. To ease someone's pain through a distracting, silly, joyous laugh is his lesson. I know there is suffering, so to escape it for a second is truly powerful. That is one church I am staying loyal to. The Church of Laughing.