(This is the second in a series. See the previous post on the Justice of God)
The essence of justice is mercy.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Justice is for those who deserve it, mercy is for those who don’t.
Woodrow Kroll
MERCY is compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm.
Mercy is not something God has; but something God is.
A. W. Tozer
The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him; we have not obeyed the Lord our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets. Daniel 9:9-10 New International Version
God is more willing to pardon than to punish.
Mercy does more multiply in him than sin in us.
Mercy is his nature.
Thomas Watson
The Lord your God is a merciful God! He will not leave you there or destroy you completely. He will not forget the agreement that he made with your ancestors. Deuteronomy 4:31 Easy-to-Read Version
A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.
Charles Spurgeon
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.
Thomas Merton
The Eternal is compassionate and merciful.
When we cross all the lines, He is patient with us.
When we struggle against Him, He lovingly stays with us—changing, convicting, prodding … Psalm 103:8 The Voice
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. William Blake
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.
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