Garbage

How few are the souls that understand this. And so they keep in their soul a putrid pile of garbage, which, if it were given to Jesus, could be transformed into Mercy! Which is fire!

Sins

He, of Himself, has only one quality in our regard: Mercy. We can unite our soul to Him only by offering Him as a gift, as our only gift, not our virtues, but our sins! Chiara's Lubich

What good

"What good would it do for Him to be infinitely merciful? If it were not for our sins?" Chiara Lubich

Share

"God's mercy lies in his availability to share our affliction empathetically; it is a readiness that wells up from the depths of his nature and which characterizes his entire way of being and acting" Karl Barth

Weigh

"Here my child, this is the commandment I give you: that mercy shall always weigh heavily on your scales until the time when you yourself feel the Mercy which God feels towards the world" Isidore the Syrian

Immeasurable

"Yes, our God's mercy is immense! Even if all the sins that exist were found in all of you, and all the crimes that will be committed, the Lord's mercy would cancel all this out; and if it is to Him you turn, the immeasurable tenderness of his mercy would elicit His forgiveness for you." St Bonaventure

Good thief

"The good thief is the obvious proof that God's Mercy opens up access to salvation for everyone ... This is an unrivaled wonder of divine mercy! It is mercy that does everything" St John Chrysostom