Thomas Merton Quotes

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.

Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way." If this goes on day after day after day, year after year, month after month, it would understandable for God to say, "I've given you ten trillion tries. You're finished." But it's not. So in that sense, His grace is always surprising, never ceases to be amazing and His mercy is remarkably outrageous.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

Our God is a forgiving God.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak

The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.

We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far!

Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.

I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.

God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Every time I pray, I ask for forgiveness. I'm a sinner. I sin every single day. But I do know that God loves me. I do know that God forgives me. It helps me in my every day life because there's nothing anyone can do to me that I can't forgive them for.