Inspirational Quotes on Mercy

“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.”

“He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.”

“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.”

“Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!”

“Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.”

“The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.”

“There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.”

“God intermixeth mercy with affliction: he steeps his sword of justice in the oil of mercy; there was no night so dark, but Israel had a pillar of fire in it; there is no condition so dismal, but we may see a pillar of fire to give light. If the body be in pain, conscience is in peace, --there is mercy: affliction is for the prevention of sin, --there is mercy. In the ark there was a rod and a pot of manna, the emblem of a Christian's condition, mercy interlined with judgment.”

“Christians, you who are vessels of election - were by nature as wicked as others - but God had compassion on you and plucked you as brands out of the fire! He stopped you in your course of sinning - when you were marching to hell! He turned you back to Him by sincere repentance. Oh, here is the banner of love displayed over you!”

“God is more willing to pardon than to punish. Mercy does more multiply in Him than sin in us. Mercy is His nature.”

“Mercy is not for them that sin and fear not, but for them that fear and sin not.”

“The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.”

“To sin because mercy abounds is the devil's logic; he that sins because of God's mercy, shall have judgment without mercy. Mercy is not for them that sin and fear not, but for them that fear and sin not.”

“How may we know that we are rightly thankful? When we are careful to register God's mercy... Physicians say the memory is the first thing that decays; it is true in spirituals.”

“The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.”

“When a Christian shows mercy, he experiences liberation.”

“If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.”

“Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.”

“He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.”

“God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.”