Top 100 Mercy Forgiveness Quotes
#1. We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
Blaise Pascal
#2. It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.
Monica Johnson
#3. Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.
Bree Despain
#5. I could see that it was God's forgiveness and His mercy that I needed, and that was provided through Christ on the Cross for those who will receive Him as Lord and Savior. That is how I came to Christ.
Kirk Cameron
#9. If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.
Criss Jami
#11. God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our souls, but the manifest forgiveness by which we have mercy on one another and so give expression to the fact that He is living, by His mercy, in our own hearts.
Thomas Merton
#14. However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.
Patriarch Tikhon Of Moscow
#15. This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the contrary, God's mercy is a great gift of grace precisely because sins are sins and they call for repentance and forgiveness.
Thomas J. Paprocki
#17. It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.
Gloria Reuben
#19. Sins that have been completely absolved on one occasion sometimes on other occasions cannot be completely forgotten or set aside. They may continue to have a ripple effect. But it is comforting to realize that they are no longer remembered by God, even if traces remain in human memory.
Thomas C. Oden
#20. I readily give but then I don't forgive easily.
Amit Abraham
#21. 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
#23. It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul.
Forgiveness isn't weakness.
It is power.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#25. Don't harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#27. When you understand what love is you will understand that mercy and forgiveness feels better than any form of revenge.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.
Criss Jami
#29. Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.
Andy Stanley
#30. Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.
Neil L. Andersen
#31. Yet how often is it that we are rescued by a stranger, if ever at all? And how is it that our lives can become drained of the possibility of forgiveness and kindness - so drained that even one small act of mercy becomes a potent lifelong memory? How do our lives reach these points?
Douglas Coupland
#33. 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
#35. The Good News is that God's mercy and forgiveness extend to those who repent. Mercy does not mean approving of something that is sinful, but does absolve the wrongdoer after a change of heart takes place in the sinner through the gift of God's grace.
Thomas J. Paprocki
#36. Christ's atonement fully satisfied the demands of God's righteousness, so forgiveness and mercy are guaranteed to those who receive Christ in humble, repentant faith.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#37. Indeed, if we have experienced anything of the Father's bountiful forgiveness his mercy must become the standard of our own:
D. A. Carson
#39. If what you need, in order to feel good about yourself later on, is to show him some mercy - then show him mercy. If you need to tell him the truth, do that. But try to look at in terms of what you're going to be able to live with ten, twenty years down the line.
Jason Schmidt
#41. Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness will help a man walk tall. Walk tall!
John Mellencamp
#42. Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love.
Pope Francis
#43. God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.
Pope Francis
#46. Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness. A full pardon from suspicion and accountability. It's the liberation of a stolen future. A future my father never lived to see. Absolution is a mercy the people who killed him will never know.
Emily Thorne
#47. There is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#48. A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.
Lewis B. Smedes
#53. Asking for forgiveness from others in a scriptural manner involves acknowledging that you have sinned against them and that you desire mercy and pardon (not to be given what you deserve). Asking for forgiveness is vital for reconciliation and may lead to the difference in the relationship.
John C. Broger
#54. Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.
Ron Brackin
#55. Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness.
Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
Rick Warren
#56. Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master.
Brent L. Top
#58. We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the self engulfed by a sense of its own utter blackness can never win through to a sufficient recognition of the sorrows of the other as other.
Martha C. Nussbaum
#59. The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
Wendell Berry
#60. 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
#61. 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.
Pope Francis
#62. Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
Timothy Keller
#63. God's Mercy and Forgiveness is available for everyone however, your part is to accept it and mend your ways
Josephine Akhagbeme
#65. 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
#67. We know that we deserve punishment and then, when we receive mercy instead, we discover grace. Romans 5:8 reads, "While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." God gives forgiveness and imputes righteousness to us even though we are sinful and while we were His enemies (vv. 6, 8, 10).
Tullian Tchividjian
#68. We need to remember and remind ourselves where we come from, what we are, our nothingness.
Pope Francis
#69. Sin's masterpiece of shame and hate became God's masterpiece of mercy and forgiveness. Through the death of Christ upon the cross, sin itself was crucified for those who believe in Him.
Billy Graham
#70. Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
C.S. Lewis
#71. Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.
John Of Kronstadt
#72. Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one's mindset can be the wellspring of tolerance, mercy, and compassion.
Brent Green
#76. We are all human, so we may trespass each other. But there is always grace for forgiveness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#82. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln
#83. 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
#85. While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like 'wormwood and gall'), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God's love, new every morning. God's mercy is not spent even with our worst misdeeds.
Thomas C. Oden
#86. Don't be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.
Pope Francis
#87. As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
Gerald R. Ford
#88. Emma Katherine Harrison, angel of mercy and forgiveness, love of my life and mother of my son, will you make me the happiest man in the world and say you'll marry me?
Katie Ashley
#95. It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.
J. Budziszewski
#96. In Your presence is fullness of joy and peace that passes all understanding. Let Your grace and mercy be a healing balm to my heart. Your forgiveness cleanses and purifies my soul.
Keith Provance
#98. Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.
Joyce Meyer
#99. Three great actions:
To do what is right,
To love mercy, and
To walk humbly with Yahweh.
Lailah Gifty Akita
