Quotes about Mercy
holy despair in ourselves is the basis for true hope. In God the fatherless find mercy (Hos. 14:3). If men were more fatherless, they should feel more God's fatherly affection from heaven, for the God who dwells in the highest heavens dwells likewise in the lowest soul (Isa. 57:15).
— Richard Sibbes
But if we have this for a foundation truth, that there is more mercy in Christ than sin in us, there can be no danger in thorough dealing. It is better to go bruised into heaven than sound to hell. Therefore let us . . . keep ourselves under this work till sin be the sourest, and Christ the sweetest of all things.
— Richard Sibbes
God has laid up all grace and comfort in Christ for us, and planted a wonderful sweetness of pity and love in his heart toward us. As God his Father has fitted him with a body, so with a heart to be a merciful Redeemer. What do the Scriptures speak but Christ's love and tender care over those that are humbled? and besides the mercy that rests in his own breast, he works the like impression in his ministers and others, to comfort the feeble-minded, and to bear with the weak.
— Richard Sibbes
To show that the creature cannot be so low but there is somewhat in God above the misery of the creature, his mercy shall triumph over the basest estate where he will show mercy. Therefore there is mercy above all mercy and love above all love, in that Christ was a servant.
— Richard Sibbes
It yields us comfort also in desolate conditions, such as contagious sicknesses and the like, in which we are more immediately under God's hand, that then Christ has a throne of mercy at our bedside and numbers our tears and our groans.
— Richard Sibbes
God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love
— Richard Wurmbrand
Forgiveness is unilateral. God isn't waiting for us to get it together, to clean up, shape up, get up - God has already done it.
— Rob Bell
Of course Jonah is angry. When you haven't forgiven someone who has wronged you and then something good happens to them—when they are blessed or shown mercy or experience favor—it's infuriating.
— Rob Bell
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
— Robert Frost
There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
— Timothy Keller
God is the Father who is full of mercy. God is the Father who is full of comfort. That is the kind of relationship he offers to you.
— Rick Warren
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
— Mahatma Gandhi