Quotes about Mercy

There is no means to take sin away but grace alone. That

IN this chapter Moses selects another occasion for transgressing the First Commandment, an occasion called spiritual pride because it boasts of its righteousness and merits. This is trust in one's own works, and no plague and opponent of faith or trust in the mercy of God is more destructive.

The Law dispels all self-illusions. It puts the fear of God in a man. Without this fear there can be no thirst for God's mercy. God accordingly uses the Law for a hammer to break up the illusion of self- righteousness, that we should despair of our own strength and efforts at self-justification.

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. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.

Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.

Because of the lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

Forgiveness achieves more than vengeance.