Quotes about Mercy
None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.
— Charles Spurgeon
When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.
— Charles Spurgeon
If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.
— Watchman Nee
We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.
— David Jeremiah
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
— Frederick Buechner
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
— Hannah More
But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.
— John Calvin
Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?
— Joseph Prince
For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.
— Julian of Norwich
We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.
— Laurence Sterne
If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.
— Martin Luther
I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.
— Martin Luther