Saint Augustine Quotes About Mercy
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We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
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The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.
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If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.
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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
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