Quotes about Mercy
God's fatherhood does not lessen the severity of His wrath or lower the standard of His justice. On the contrary, a loving father requires more from his children than judges demand from defendants. Yet a good father also shows greater mercy.
— Scott Hahn
The Lord never gets tired of forgiving us. It is we who get tired of asking for forgiveness.
— Scott Hahn
The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.
— John Adams
The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.
— John Bevere
For all the expiations have no other meaning than that God will be always merciful, as often as the sinner shall flee to the refuge of his pardon.
— John Calvin
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
— John Calvin
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
— John Calvin
He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit
— John Calvin
Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.
— John Calvin
When He orders you to forgive that man for whatever sin he has committed against you, He calls you to do so not because that man deserves it, but because God Himself has forgiven you (Luke 17:3—4).
— John Calvin
Give what is absolutely free, because he sees nothing in us that can be a ground of salvation.
— John Calvin
First, since by God's command all the saints daily ask for their sins to be forgiven (Matt.6:12), they confess themselves sinners. They do not ask in vain, for the Lord Jesus never bade us ask for something which he would not give us.
— John Calvin