80 Mercy Quotes and Sayings That Will Enlighten You

Mercy quotes

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• "Our God is abundant in love and steadfast in mercy. He saves us, not because we trust in a symbol, but because we trust in a Savior." — Max Lucado

• "Let us allow God to fill our hearts with his goodness and mercy." — Pope Francis

• "There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us." — Richard Sibbes

• "Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends." — Mark Hopkins

• "Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!" — Pope Francis

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." — Winston Churchill

• "God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God." — Charles Spurgeon

• "Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence." — Saint Augustine

• "Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive." — Saint Augustine

• "You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution." — Nelson Mandela

• "Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me." — Alexander Pope

• "Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved." — Saint John Chrysostom

• "The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love." — Julian of Norwich

• "Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind." — Pope John Paul II

• "Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others." — Pope Francis

• "Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence." — Dorothy Day

• "Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish." — Pope Francis

Pope Francis Mercy quotes (from the book of ‘The Name of God is Mercy’)

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• “The fragility of our era is this, too: we don’t believe that there is a chance for redemption; for a hand to raise you up; for an embrace to save you, forgive you, pick you up, flood you with infinite, patient, indulgent love; to put you back on your feet. We need mercy.”

• “The Church Fathers teach us that a shattered heart is the most pleasing gift to God. It is the sign that we are conscious of our sins, of the evil we have done, of our wretchedness, and of our need for forgiveness and mercy.”

• “The Church does not exist to condemn people but to bring about an encounter with the visceral love of God’s mercy.”

• “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.”

• “Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving God.”

• “Justice on its own is not enough. With mercy and forgiveness, God goes beyond justice, he subsumes it and exceeds it in a higher event in which we experience love, which is at the root of true justice.”

• “God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by caressing the wounds of our sins.”

• “turned toward her and called her abuela, grandmother, as we do in Argentina. “Abuela, do you want to confess?” “Yes,” she replied. And since I was ready to leave, I said: “But if you have no sins…” Her answer was swift and immediate: “We all have sins.” “But maybe the Lord can’t forgive them,” I said. “The Lord forgives everything.” “How do you know?” “If the Lord didn’t forgive everything, our world would not exist.”

• “WHAT do you need in order to obtain mercy? Is it necessary to have a certain predisposition?           The first thing that comes to mind is the phrase “I can’t take it anymore!” You”

• “God is a careful and attentive father, ready to welcome any person who takes a step or even expresses the desire to take a step that leads home. He is there, staring out at the horizon, expecting us, waiting for us. No human sin—however serious—can prevail over or limit mercy.”

• “DON Luigi Giussani used to quote this example from Bruce Marshall’s novel To Every Man a Penny. The protagonist of the novel, the abbot Father Gaston, needs to hear the confession of a young German soldier whom the French partisans are about to sentence to death. The soldier confesses his love of women and the numerous amorous adventures he has had. The young priest explains that he has to repent to obtain forgiveness and absolution. The soldier answers, “How can I repent? It was something that I enjoyed, and if I had the chance I would do it again, even now. How can I repent?” Father Gaston, who wants to absolve the man who has been marked by destiny and who’s about to die, has a stroke of inspiration and asks, “But are you sorry that you are not sorry?” The young man answers impulsively, “Yes, I am sorry that I am not sorry.” In other words, he apologizes for not repenting. The door was opened just a crack, allowing absolution to come in….”

• “God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by caressing the wounds of our sins.”

Grace and mercy quotes (God's grace and mercy quotes)

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• "There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us." — Max Lucado

• "One drop of the Lord's mercy is better than an ocean of the world's comfort." — Lysa TerKeurst

• "God's grace and mercy are bigger than the biggest challenge we may face today and the worst decision we might make today." — Jonathan Morris

• "God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world." — Billy Graham

• "I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength" — Adam Young

• "God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own." — T. D. Jakes

• "We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness" — Pope Francis

• "The reason to forgive ourselves is not because we feel like it or because we want to see ourselves as blameless but because we limit what we can receive from God when we hold on to our past. He wants to do so much more than we could ever imagine. Forgiving yourself starts with believing in God's incredible love for you and accepting His amazing grace and mercy. If God Almighty can forgive us who are we to hold on to what He has not only forgiven but forgotten" — Sue Augustine

• "Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear." — Rumi

• "No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God." — Cyprian

• "Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice." — Andy Stanley

• "For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they should remain as they were before they received grace and mercy; but he condones and forgives both sin and death for the sake of Christ, who has fulfilled the whole Law in order thereby to make the heart sweet and through the Holy Spirit to kindle and move the heart to begin to love from day to day more and more." — Martin Luther

• "All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of our souls depends, are represented to us in all their splendour in and through Christ. No wonder then that Christ is glorious in the eyes of believers!" — John Owen

• "I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence." — Christopher Columbus

• "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. We all fall short of the glory, we all got plenty." — Denzel Washington

• "We desperately need to understand something of the magnitude of sin, of evil, and of gross wickedness in this world if we are to appreciate our redemption. God's love, grace, and mercy shine all the brighter against the awful reality of evil. Indeed, the very existence of evil is a powerful proof of God's existence and holiness." — Dave Hunt

• "Most people have settled for a wimpy grace. It's something that doesn't change their lives. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us." — Max Lucado

• "The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God." — John Cassian

• "Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen." — Queen Elizabeth II

• "Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens." — Richard Rohr

• "Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel." — John Dryden

• "What will it cost you, oh Mary, to hear our prayer? What will it cost you to save us? Has not Jesus placed in your hands all the treasures of His grace and mercy? You sit crowned Queen at the right hand of your son: your dominion reaches as far as the heavens and to you are subject the earth and all creatures dwelling thereon. Your dominion reaches even down into the abyss of hell, and you alone, oh Mary, save us from the hands of Satan." — Pope Pius X

• "Grace and mercy are never deserved." — R. C. Sproul

• "Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled." — Thomas Brooks

Divine mercy quotes

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• "Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?" — Pope John Paul II

• "Oh, how great is the goodness of God, greater than we can understand. There are moments and there are mysteries of the divine mercy over which the heavens are astounded. Let our judgment of souls cease, for God's mercy upon them is extraordinary." — Mary Faustina Kowalska

• "There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God." — Pope John Paul II

• "I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone." — Pio of Pietrelcina

• "Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ." — Philipp Melanchthon

• "How many people also in our time are in search of God, in search of Jesus and of his Church, in search of divine mercy, and are waiting for a "sign" that will touch their minds and their hearts! Today, as then, the Evangelist reminds us that the only "sign" is Jesus raised on the cross: Jesus who died and rose is the absolutely sufficient sign. Through him we can understand the truth about life and obtain salvation." — Pope Benedict XVI

• "Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown." — Rumi

• "Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy." — David Platt

• "The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom." — George Weigel

• "May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves." — Pope Francis

• "If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need." — Alphonsus Liguori

• "Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy." — Alistair Begg

• "At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'" — John Stott

• "Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy." — Said Nursi

• "No just man suffices unto himself for the winning of justification. The divine mercy must always hold out a hand to his footsteps as they falter and almost stumble, and this is so because the weakness of his free will may cause him to lose balance, and if he falls he may perish forever." — John Cassian

Mercy quotes Bible

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• “Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” Hebrews 4:16

• “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Matthew 9:13

• “But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.” Ephesians 2:4-5

• “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.” Psalm 51:1-2

• “Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.” Micah 7:18

• “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” Matthew 6:14

• “Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good.” Psalm 25:6-7

• “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.” Romans 12:1

• “Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me.” Psalm 40:11

• “Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord; Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.” Psalm 130:1-2

• “But in your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.” Nehemiah 9:31

• “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” Proverbs 28:13