Quotes about Mercy
Mark 11:25 is talking about forgiveness as a heart attitude before God.
— Timothy Lane
When I consider someone's sin as I stand before the Lord, I am called to have an attitude of forgiveness toward the person who sinned against me. This is non-negotiable.
— Timothy Lane
Though your sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them as white as snow.
— Oscar Wilde
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
— Dallas Willard
Jesus is the expression of the love of God for us, and in him we see the many ways God deals with people in mercy and grace.
— Dallas Willard
Search me, O God." "Let the meditations of my heart be acceptable to you." "Renew in me a right spirit." At a certain point my own "beyond that is within" (my heart) has been formed and I am then at its mercy. Only God can save me.
— Dallas Willard
Jesus went on to say to the woman, "Your sins are forgiven. Your faith has saved you. Go with peace in your heart." Here is God's rule in action.
— Dallas Willard
We forgive someone of a wrong they have done us when we decide that we will not make them suffer for it in any way.
— Dallas Willard
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
— 1 Peter 1:3
I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy. That is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength. God's mercy and grace give me hope, for myself, and for our world.
— Billy Graham
God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people.
— Charles Spurgeon
I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you're down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding.
— Denzel Washington