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Have mercy on me, God, in your goodness;
in your abundant compassion blot out my offense. |
| Psalm 51:3 |
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Turn trustingly to the Lord.
Put your faith in him with all your heart,
because nothing is impossible to him.
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St. Patrick, 5th century
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Merciful and gracious is the Lord,
slow to anger, abounding in kindness. |
| Psalm 103:8 |
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In Christ there are two proofs of the gentleness of his nature.
He patiently awaits the return of the sinner
and he gently receives the penitent.
This twofold mercy abounds in the heart of the Lord Jesus.
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St. Bernard of Clarivaux, 12th century
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Have mercy on me, O God,
in your kindness. |
| Psalm 50:1 |
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We have a deep need to meet with the mercy of God,
to feel radically understood
in the weakness of our wounded nature.
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Pope John Paul II, 20th century
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Light rises in the darkness for the upright;
the Lord is gracious, merciful, and just.
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| Psalm 112:4 |
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It is mercy that places a limit to evil.
In mercy, all God's utterly unique power is expressed;
his sanctity, the power of truth and of love.
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His Holiness, Benedict XVI
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| They shall look on him whom they have pierced. |
| John 19: 37 |
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Looking at Christ,
we feel at the same time looked at by him.
He whom we have pierced with our faults
never tires of pouring out upon the world
an inexhaustible torrent of merciful love.
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His Holiness, Benedict XVI
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The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
his mercies never come to an end. |
| Lamentations 3:22 |
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The mercies of God are so great
that no man can speak enough about them.
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St. Thomas More, 16th century
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