Quotes about Mercy

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

It is necessary to understand that it is not sin that humbles most, but grace.

As bread is the first need of the body, so forgiveness for the soul.

Fear and hope are generally thought to be in conflict with each other, in the presence and worship of God they are found side by side in perfect and beautiful harmony. And this because in God Himself all apparent contradictions are reconciled. Righteousness and peace, judgment and mercy, holiness and love, infinite power and infinite gentleness, a majesty that is exalted above all heaven, and a condescension that bows very low, meet and kiss each other.

Our prayers must not be a vague appeal to His mercy or an indefinite cry for blessing, but the distinct expression of definite need. It is not that His loving heart does not understand our cry or is not ready to hear, but He desires it for our own sake. Such definite prayer teaches us to know our own needs better. It demands time and thought and self-scrutiny to find out what really is our greatest need.

And now He calls us to live and to walk in love. He demands that though a man hate you, still you love him. True love cannot be conquered by anything.

Only what is really confessed is really forgiven.

God, I thank thee, I am not as the rest of men, or even as this publican. It is in that which is just cause for thanksgiving, it is in the very thanksgiving which we render to God, it may be in the very confession that God has done it all, that self finds its cause of complacency. Yes, even when in the temple the language of penitence and trust in God's mercy alone is heard, the Pharisee may take up the note of praise, and in thanking God be congratulating himself.

As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth you.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.