Top 100 Quotes About Merciful God
#1. God is so unique in giving His people ways to fellowship, witness, and remember what a mighty and merciful God He is.
Monica Johnson
#2. Most merciful God, order my day so that I may know what you want me to do, and then help me to do it. Let me not be elated by success or depressed by failure. I want only to take pleasure in what pleases you, and only to grieve at what displeases you.
Kurt Bjorklund
#3. Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?
Dick Cavett
#4. We must ... submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.
Robert E.Lee
#5. He did not live in fear of God because, he reasoned, a merciful God would not create us only to punish us for trivial earthly matters.
Nadia Hashimi
#6. A merciful God must surely close his eyes in anguish against the barbaric will of man to main and butcher one another
Linda Goodnight
#7. I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!
Vincent De Paul
#8. The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.
Billy Graham
#9. How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#11. Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished.
Nora Roberts
#12. There is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#13. Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?
John Clayton
#15. I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.
Lars Von Trier
#16. Oh merciful God, grant that the old Adam in this child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in her....
M.L. Stedman
#17. For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.
Philip Yancey
#18. God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes no one to perish, has procured some remedy unto salvation ...
Pope Innocent III
#19. There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
Paul David Washer
#20. No person can be his own saviour ... An individual must come before God in penitence, confess his sin and obtain pardon from a merciful God who repudiates sin but shows covenant love to the sinner.
R.K. Harrison
#21. Love is the first cause of all the graces we desire; it warms the heart, and sweetly and powerfully influences our affections to delight in, and to walk in love with such an exceedingly gracious and merciful God.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#22. A loving, just and merciful God who created everything that exists would therefore love all creation equally. Such a God would have no "chosen people" for we would all be God's chosen people, each of us created in the image and likeness of pure and perfect Holy Love itself.
Karlyle Tomms
#23. But no one gets lost - the hand of the merciful God always lies on the heads of courageous men and women, those who dare to be different because they believe in their dreams.
Paulo Coelho
#24. Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
David Attenborough
#25. Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.
Billy Graham
#26. I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. "But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.
Joseph Heller
#27. If there is heaven then there must be hell too, don't think that The God is merciful, he didn't create hell for himself.
John Art
#29. Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference.
Pope Francis
#30. PRAYER O God, our merciful Father in heaven, fill our hearts with patience under the cross, strengthen our faith, and so govern us that we give offense to none, neither in word nor deed. Grant us also this day all that we need for body and soul. Amen.
Martin Luther
#31. If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.
Max Lucado
#32. The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.
Francis Chan
#33. Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.
Fethullah Gulen
#34. God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
William Law
#35. Like it or not, sin has consequences. Which is why God lovingly warns us against it. Thankfully, He is merciful and ready to forgive if we ask Him. But that doesn't erase natural consequences of our actions. Cause and effect."
"The Secret of Pembrooke Park.
Julie Klassen
#36. God loves man and that's why He is merciful and good to him
Sunday Adelaja
#37. but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
Anonymous
#38. In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
Pope John Paul II
#39. God is merciful to children, but the children must be worthy as well.
Nicholas Sparks
#40. God is merciful to those who want to love Him and who have placed their hopes in Him.
Francis De Sales
#41. My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.
Kurt Vonnegut
#42. Most religious individuals do not conceive God in an anthropomorphic or angry way. Rather, in their personal psychological domain of religious or spiritual beliefs, they conceive God in more abstract, spiritual and merciful way.
Abhijit Naskar
#43. If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there
T.H. White
#45. People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.
Joyce Meyer
#46. He has forbidden you only carrion, blood, and the flesh of swine; also any flesh that is consecrated other than in the name of God. But for one who is driven by necessity, neither craving nor transgressing, it is no sin. For God is forgiving and merciful.
Anonymous
#47. The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive
Timothy Keller
#48. Wonder at God's merciful love is a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness; you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#49. Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.
Alex Campbell
#51. In the end we must be merciful to the fallen, show grace to struggling, and be patient with the doubting. But when God's Word is clear we must not-and we cannot-back up, back off, back down, back out, or backslide from the truth.
Rick Warren
#52. God is merciful to people who have not measured up; merciful to people who have turned from God toward their own desires; merciful to people whom he created to glorify him but who found the god of perfection more alluring than the perfect God.
Amy Baker
#53. You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Jonah
#54. God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.
Swami Vivekananda
#55. 110Yet anyone who does evil or wrongs his own soul and then asks God for forgiveness will find Him most forgiving and merciful.
Anonymous
#56. A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
Louis Finkelstein
#57. We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
Annie Dillard
#58. Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.
Neal A. Maxwell
#59. And if the object of one's desire is a relationship with God, his blessing and love, then the struggle cannot fail but ends in that self-giving to God, in recognition of one's own weakness, which is overcome only by giving oneself over into God's merciful hands.
Benedict, Pope XVI
#60. We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.
Charlotte Bronte
#61. I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.
Mario Puzo
#62. The idea that the Christian god is just, is directly contradicted by the idea that the Christian god is merciful. Perfect justice and any mercy are necessarily directly in contradiction, because mercy is a suspension of justice.
Matt Dillahunty
#63. I think people get excited about their perspective on sexuality because it gives them the feeling that, their failures notwithstanding, if they take a hard stand on what they consider to be godly, maybe God will be more merciful to them.
Walter Wink
#64. Passed (it strikes me that this God was extremely merciful to her: He gave her what He took away).
Clarice Lispector
#65. In the heart of Jesus, we recognize that God himself has a heart (cor) for us, who are poor (miseri), in the broadest sense of the word, and that he is, therefore, merciful (misericors).
Walter Kasper
#66. Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.
Jules Renard
#67. If as we accept God is the perfect epitome of justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion, then our efforts to define the divine will through Sharia should be predicated on achieving a result that is merciful compassionate.
Mark Durie
#68. No matter the life-shattering circumstance that delivers the devastating blow to our spirit, God is bigger. He is faithful and unchanging, merciful and consistent with His offer to us, that through it all, we will be comforted, we will be loved, we will be HELD.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#69. I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.
Miles Franklin
#70. The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God not by doing it right but by doing it wrong!
Tullian Tchividjian
#71. Surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don't expect it and often feel they don't deserve it.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#72. God is merciful cant we all be on the right track of faith but just using different roads?
Ali Al-Ahmed
#73. Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence our protector, whom or what shall we fear?
Jeremiah Denton
#74. God is Holy.
God is pure.
God is faithful.
God is gracious.
God is merciful.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. 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
#76. You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!
Tennessee Williams
#77. God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God's merciful forgiveness is far greater than your sins. Do not be afraid. Trust in his love. Repent of your sins without delay and return to the house of the Father. He is waiting for you.
Patrick Madrid
#78. I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family.
Jose Rizal
#79. God is merciful, showing us our true hideousness only in proportion to the courage he gives us to bear the sight.
Francis Fenelon
#80. A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.
R.C. Sproul
#81. God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Francois Fenelon
#82. As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.
Matt Redman
#83. God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
Isaac Newton
#84. He wiped out Jericho, and He saved a harlot. What kind of God was this? He seemed at once impossibly holy and ridiculously merciful. How could you tie those two incongruities together? Rahab
Tessa Afshar
#85. Christianity offers a different vision, the vision of a merciful and loving God, whose "silence" about our sins need not be interpreted as a sign of His nonexistence, but instead as an expression of His patience and readiness to forgive. But
Tomas Halik
#87. My nose, thank god, had conked out by then. Noses are merciful that way. They will report that something smells awful. If the owner of a nose stays around anyway, the nose concludes that the smell isn't so bad after all. It shuts itself off, deferring to superior wisdom.
Kurt Vonnegut
#88. Don't be troubled if you don't feel the love of God in yourself, but thing about the Lord, that He is merciful, and guard yourself from sins, and the grace of God will teach you.
Silouan The Athonite
#89. The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
Khalil Gibran
#90. How do you think of the Bible? Is it law, condemnation, warning, guilt, threats and judgment? Or is it God's merciful and gracious revelation for fallen, broken humanity?
Tedd Tripp
#91. 163 : And your Allah is One Allah: There is no god but He, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Anonymous
#92. Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.
Henry Eyring
#93. You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.
Mother Teresa
#94. God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
Alexandre Dumas
#95. Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God's. He gets out of trouble when he bows to the divine superiority, when he repents and says humbly: "God be merciful to me a sinner." Man's extremity then becomes God's opportunity.
Billy Graham
#96. My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love!
Francis Beaumont
#97. Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these 'unfortunates' that must be treated in the most human fashion. This is their salvation and their joy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#98. The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.
Matthew Henry
#99. I have consummated the work to which I pledged myself, using all the abilities that You (God) gave me; I have shown the glory of Your works to men, but if I have pursued my own glory among men while engaged in a work intended for Your glory, be merciful, be compassionate, and forgive.
Johannes Kepler
#100. You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.
Shannon L. Alder
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