Mercy Quotes

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

~ Jodi Picoult

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.

~ Criss Jami

Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.

~ Bree Despain

Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy; it thirsts for a great and loving action, it will melt and mount upwards. There are souls which, in their limitation, blame the whole world. But subdue such a soul with mercy, show it love, and it will curse its past, for there are many good impulses in it. Such a heart will expand and see that God is merciful and that men are good and just. He will be horror-stricken; he will be crushed by remorse and the vast obligation laid upon him henceforth. And he will not say then, 'I am quits,' but will say, 'I am guilty in the sight of all men and am more unworthy than all.' With tears of penitence and poignant, tender anguish, he will exclaim: 'Others are better than I, they wanted to save me, not to ruin me!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man needs the mercy of his Maker.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whoever turns to God, shall receive mercy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I need to accept God’s love and forgiveness, turning away from my sin and toward Him starting every day anew just as His mercies are new every morning.

~ Teresa Schultz

It is up to each one of us to immunize ourselves from any disabling bolts of anger and defend ourselves from the thunderstorms of hatred. No matter how maliciously anyone might act towards us, humankinds’ ability to express empathy, compassion, and mercy is the only life-sustaining panacea. Whenever we foster empathy and compassion and display mercy towards other people, we overcome the vilest actions and greatest atrocities committed by other persons. If we love everyone, we can never feel victimized or hate anyone. If we love ourselves, we will never act in a degrading manner.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encounter with the mercy of Jesus takes place is my sin.

~ Pope Francis

Great mercy, great love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is human to sin but divine to be saved.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The gift of salvation set me free from all my sins.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Three great actions: To do what is right, To love mercy, and To walk humbly with Yahweh.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

~ Billy Graham

Give people the chance to change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be compassionate with all people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is never easy for any one. Be gentle with one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We fall away, but God redeem us.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep your quiet spirit, peace and calmness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is grace for every soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never judge the life of another man. You never know his struggles.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We ought to give each other, a chance to change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The bond of love is sacred spirituality.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to show ‘you care’ than say ‘I care’.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We ought to love one another

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am sure of God's hand and guidance... You must never doubt that I am thankful and glad to go the way which I am being led. My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Never leave a situation unless you know what you needed and what you were never going to get.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Accept each other's fault with brotherly love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It‘s utterly astounding that every time I get knocked down God’s mercy compassionately raises me to my feet; His grace thoroughly brushes off every trace of assorted filth I accumulated in the fall, His word precisely recalibrates my direction to insure the success of a journey resumed, and once all of that is completed He gently leans over and whispers, “How about another run?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Mercy is just when it is rooted in hopefulness and freely given. Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving. The people who haven’t earned it, who haven’t even sought it, are the most meaningful recipients of our compassion.

~ Bryan Stevenson

Practice mercy and forgiveness throughout as a lesson that symbolizes the love shown through his crucifixion.

~ Unarine Ramaru

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

God never tires of forgiving us, we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

~ Pope Francis

On Jesus' rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This cry for mercy is possible only when we are willing to confess that somehow, somewhere, we ourselves have something to do with our losses. Crying for mercy is a recognition that blaming God, the world, or others for our losses does not do full justice to the truth of who we are. At the moment we are willing to take responsibility, even for the pain we didn't cause directly, blaming is connected into an acknowledgement of our own role in human brokenness. The prayer for God's mercy comes from a heart that knows that this human brokenness is not a fatal condition of which we have become the sad victims, but the bitter fruit of the human choice to say No to love.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen