Quotes about Mercy

We bask in God's grace but throw the law at others. We're

let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow, though they be as red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

Grace for the case is grace for your condition.

a common burden so many Christians have unwittingly carried, namely, that watching over us is God, an unstable parent, who is right off the bat harsh, vindictive, at best begrudgingly merciful, and mainly interested in whether we've read and understood the fine print; if not, God has no recourse but to punish us.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.

If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?