Receiving God’s Mercy
What is mercy? I think perhaps the best way of approaching it is to compare it with grace.
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones • Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
We have a divine mandate to forgive everyone who offends us. To understand this puts us in the frame of mind to always be ready to offer forgiveness. Life is overflowing with opportunities for hurt and offense. To err is human … to forgive is divine.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
He understands that being human means making mistakes. When we acknowledge this in all humility, without wanting anything else, we can forgive ourselves, and we can begin correcting our mistakes. And once we forgive ourselves, we can forgive anyone.
Stephen Mitchell • The Gospel According to Jesus: New Translation and Guide to His Essenti
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Psalm 51:1
Martin Luther • Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional
All things cry for forgiveness in their imperfection, their incompleteness, their woundedness, their constant movement toward death. Mere rage or resentment will not change any of these realities.
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr