Top 100 Quotes About God's Mercy
#1. The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#2. May the fullness of God's love and His mercy shine as treasures to be found in every horizon.
Amy E. Tobin
#3. Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God's beginning.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#4. It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.
Monica Johnson
#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
#7. We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.
Pope Benedict XVI
#8. When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?
Maaza Mengiste
#9. He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.
William Cowper
#10. Suffering is not good in itself. What is good in any painful experience is, for the sufferer, his submission to the will of God, and, for the spectators, the compassion aroused and the acts of mercy to which it leads.
C.S. Lewis
#11. Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.
Kevin Cook
#12. If you knew what a sensation of the nearness of a higher power one instinctively feels when one is permitted to contribute to the good of mankind, as I have done, and still do! Believe me, it is a great gift of God's mercy!
Jenny Lind
#14. I believe one reason that God allows poverty and suffering is so that His followers may demonstrate Christ's love, mercy, and comfort to [others].
Billy Graham
#15. Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life. Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey.
Malcolm Lowry
#16. In solitude I get rid of my scaffolding ...
Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God's even greater mercy that their life itself becomes ministry.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#17. The moment of confession is not merely when one hears another pronounce the words: God forgives you, or 'in God's name I absolve you.' Rather it is that point at which the sinner unfeignedly experiences himself as truly judged and pardoned by God.
Thomas C. Oden
#18. Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes.
Elisabeth Elliot
#19. We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot
#20. As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!
Hosea Ballou
#21. 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
#22. It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
Donald Cargill
#23. Jesus is not only the Son of God, but He is God Himself. Having all power in His hands, He laid down His life for people who deserved God's justice, not His mercy.
Monica Johnson
#24. God's mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than God has forgiven you.
Rick Warren
#25. Sometimes due to God's mercy, the time in God's plan can be stretched or extended
Sunday Adelaja
#26. The crimson thread of God's love that weaves its way throughout the story of His mercy in our life, stands out against the backdrop of the darkness which invades any valley.
Amy E. Tobin
#27. But Paul knew that his sin was nailed to the cross, and the hammer of God's mercy has no claw.
Mark Batterson
#28. In the beauty of the world, we are to see God's existence. In the brokenness of the world, we are to see God's justice. As we do, we run back to the place where we see God's mercy: the cross.
Timothy Keller
#29. 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
#30. Those whom God pardons must be made to know what their sin deserved, and how miserable they would have been if they had been unpardoned, that God's mercy may be the more magnified.
Matthew Henry
#31. Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience His eye, mercy His bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is His beauty (S. Charnock). It is this, supremely, which renders Him lovely to those who are delivered from sin's dominion.
Arthur W. Pink
#32. Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love, and the future to God's providence.
Augustine Of Hippo
#33. Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us
Joseph Caryl
#35. 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
#36. And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
Henry Ward Beecher
#37. Rejoice and thank God in the midst of your storms. For those people who have been through hell and back but continue to have smiles on their faces, they are the examples of God's grace and mercy
Latorria Freeman
#38. Thus the motivation, energy and drive for holiness are all found in the reality and power of God's grace in Christ. And so if I am to make any progress in sanctification, the place where I must always begin is the gospel of the mercy of God to me in Christ Jesus.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#39. Mercy is God's favour that holds back from us what we deserve. Grace is God's favour that gives us what we do not deserve.
Rolfe Barnard
#40. Every single human being is created in the image of God; created for dignity, created for the Father's love, created for kindness, created for mercy.
Heidi Baker
#42. The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.
John Calvin
#43. The adjective so often coupled with mercy is the word tender, but God's mercy is not tender; this mercy is a blunt instrument. Mercy doesn't wrap a warm, limp blanket around offenders. God's mercy is the kind that kills the thing that wronged it and resurrects something new in its place.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#44. How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#45. It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track and from ruin.
Henry Ward Beecher
#46. God's love and mercy are for all people.
Jim George
#47. I have gone astray many times, but Now, what matters is the mercy of God's grace that guides me in the right path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.
Shannon L. Alder
#49. The ancient priest who had taken Father Angel's place and whose name no one had bothered to find out awaited God's mercy stretched out casually in a hammock, tortured by arthritis and the insomnia of doubt while the lizards and rats fought over the inheritance of the nearby church.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#50. We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
Saint Augustine
#51. Mercy, who breaks God's commandments without fear or regret, who works hard to make others suffer, or who fights for personal gain at your expense
Sarah Price
#52. How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.
Therese Of Lisieux
#53. God's Fatherly prerogative, is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy - the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#54. Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
Mark Hopkins
#55. I am confident in my FAITH because I know the character of God and am assured by the love and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
Karen Gibbs
#56. Our lives consist of different seasons. Through them all, God's love and mercy never changes. - Mimi Greenwood Knight
Gary Chapman
#57. Mercy is not giving someone what they deserve. Grace is giving someone what they don't deserve. Extend God's wisdom in your relationships.
Andrew Wommack
#58. The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him, imitating His goodness, His mercy, and His love of man.
Leo Tolstoy
#59. We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him.
Martin Luther
#60. The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous, and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm deserving of God's mercy, I'll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard.
Matisyahu
#61. 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
#62. 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.
#63. It is by God's mercy that we are saved. May we never tire of spreading this joyful message to the world.
Pope Francis
#64. It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins - when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#65. The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.
Alistair Begg
#66. The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.
Max Lucado
#67. If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.
Billy Graham
#68. We teach that all men are naturally depraved. We condemn man's free will, his strength, wisdom, and righteousness. We say that we obtain grace by the free mercy of God alone for Christ's sake.
Martin Luther
#69. Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#70. Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#71. Seems to me the most beautiful thing on earth, perhaps because it is unearthly, and the touch of God in us: the miracle of mercy, the unexpected, the arms of the prodigal son's father, the ravens bringing food in the night, the cup running over.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#72. When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.
Charles Spurgeon
#73. The Church does not exist to condemn people but to bring about an encounter with the visceral love of God's mercy.
Pope Francis
#74. The wheels of [God's] mercy and justice move quietly and silently, but they do move.
Billy Graham
#75. He hasn't earned your your mercy."
Nessy replied, "Mercy isn't earned. It's given.
A. Lee Martinez
#76. The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God's redemption to the world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#77. I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
#78. Commending the victims to almighty God's mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
Pope John Paul II
#79. Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.
Matthew Henry
#80. Whether our days trip along like the angels mounting on Jacob's ladder to heaven or grind along like the wagons that Joseph sent for Jacob, they are in each case ordered by God's mercy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#81. A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.
Brennan Manning
#82. Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.
Richard Rohr
#83. Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked.
Ron Brackin
#84. As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#85. Only those who are aware of God's wrath are amazed by God's grace.
C.J. Mahaney
#86. Khesed ... mercy ... love. It's God's nature, His essence. Don't forget that, through all this, don't forget that. Judgement is His necessity, but His nature and essence, His heart, is love. He's the one always calling out to the lost to be saved.
Jonathan Cahn
#87. While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.
Matt Chandler
#88. It would be against God's character to give us a promise that our children will be saved if we raise them in a certain way. That would mean that he was telling us to trust in something other than Christ and his grace and mercy.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#89. Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.
Jonathan Morris
#90. The next day he went to the archbishop and told him that he was resolved to go out into the world to preach the gospel of God's unending mercy.
C. G. Jung
#91. God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.
T.D. Jakes
#92. True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love.
William Mackergo Taylor
#93. No one preached to me ... No one had to ... I wouldn't have listened anyway. I became a believer from a direct encounter with an answered prayer. I came face to face with God and all his power in a tiny bathroom in Washington.
Jacci Mendelsohn
#94. Our intercession prayers make God's mercy to triumph against judgment
Sunday Adelaja
#95. The all of God, the totality of His immensity, is known in the human heart through encountering divine mercy. The search for the Lord within is the effort to find those places in the substance of the soul where God's mercy and human misery touch each other, where one has bearing on the other.
Anthony Lilles
#96. All around the world, God is giving and sustaining life to the praise of his grace. His mercy is new every morning, and it's always morning somewhere.
Gloria Furman
#97. Low places are where the waters of God's mercy and grace come to meet me.
Jasmine May
#98. God's Mercy and Forgiveness is available for everyone however, your part is to accept it and mend your ways
Josephine Akhagbeme
#99. A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would hear the one angel; even if 999 parts of that one angel's report were unfavorable, God would hearken to the favorable part.
Israel Shenker
#100. 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
