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Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us or He's not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.