Quotes about Mercy

I heard a man of brilliance cry out that God has withdrawn from nations when they have turned from Him, and surely we are astiff-necked people; why should He not withdraw? But then I remember Jonah accusing God of overlenience, of foolishness, mercy, and compassion. We desperately need the foolishness of God. (233)

William Langland, writing around 1400, said, 'And all the wickedness in the world that man might work or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in the sea.

But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.

Mercy. It didn't mean that everything was okay, could or should be condoned. But we can't move out of ourselves and our own self-justifications until we look in the mirror and know, yes, I, too, could have done this. Or worse. My anger at my mother. At Mama for telling me things I don't want to know.

What we must look for is God's mercy. God's mercy shown through our own.

Gratitude is only expressed and appreciated in proportion to your understanding of grace.

If you got on your knees to give thanks for the undeserved kindness and mercy in your life, you would be shocked by how rich you truly are.

Don't try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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.