Quotes about Mercy
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
— Peter Kreeft
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
— Frederick Buechner
Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
— Desmond Tutu
He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.
— Thomas Adams
Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.
— John Bevere
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.
— John Newton
Grace is power, not just pardon.
— John Piper
Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.
— Joseph Prince
God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.
— Francis Asbury
Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.
— William Carey
And therefore, that the holy Deity is all Love, and Blessing, and Goodness, willing and working only Love and Goodness to every Thing, as far as it can receive it, is a Truth as deeply grounded in me as the feeling of my own Existence.
— William Law
I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
— David Brainerd