Quotes about Mercy
Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.
— Charles Spurgeon
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (Rom. 7:18). As someone has said, even the spirituality we do possess is corrupted by our nature. We have nothing to brag about. On the contrary, God must always give us grace to bear with our faults and mercy to forgive our sins.
— William Wilberforce
we know that our Sovereign is "Long suffering, and easy to be entreated;" more ready to grant, than we to ask, forgiveness.
— William Wilberforce
God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.
— Philip Yancey
Love. Forgive. As you forgive, you will be forgiven.
— Davis Bunn
If God charged us for every tear He shed for us, the world would be bankrupt.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
— Marianne Williamson
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.
— Mother Teresa
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me
— Max Lucado
Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us …
— Elie Wiesel