Quotes About Mercy

God saved me.

I believe in giving people a second chance.

God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.

While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Likewise, our future full-size evangelistic Noah's Ark will honor the Bible as God's word and not treat it as a pagan fable.

I don't mind giving 5,000 pardons a day.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

Even the gods pardon someone who makes a mistake.

I'm proud that, in my first year as Lieutenant Governor, we recommended commutation for 19 people serving life without parole sentences and sent them to the Governor's desk to sign - the most since the early 90s.

One day a Japanese guard came into the 20-year-old Moitessier's cell intending to kill him. He raised his pistol, but they locked eyes until, inexplicably, the guard lowered the pistol and walked away. Now, years later, tenderized by solitude, Moitessier wished he had spared the rat.

Sadists had licence and delighted in their ability to cause suffering, especially if their victims pleaded for mercy.

Genuine faith is not some weapon that shields us from the storms of life while pronouncing judgement upon others, but neither is it wholly self-destructive. Rather, it is a weapon that both shields and lacerates the one who wields it, offering comfort to the distressed and distress to the comforted. To advocate this kingdom of love, mercy and truth involves self-sacrifice and self-critique.

Christianity is not about our disciplined pursuit of God, but about God's relentless pursuit of us—to

we all depend, in every instant, upon the mercy of God.

God is just, merciful, good, wise, loving.

Salvation is a gift of grace.

WHY SHOULD MAN EXPECT HIS PRAYER FOR MERCY TO BE HEARD BY WHAT IS ABOVE HIM WHEN HE SHOWS NO MERCY TO WHAT IS UNDER HIM? —Pierre Troubetzkoy

Kimse kimseye ac?masayd?, hiç bir insan ac?nacak halde bulunmazd?.

En çirkin merhamet, hedefini ?a??rand?r.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

Of course I'd love to protect my children from pain, but life happens instead. And as it comes along, so does mercy and- thank God- grace.

And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it.

We don't need to be beautiful for Christ to take us in. He is equally at home when we're broken-down and dirty.

It's much simpler to wear the right clothes, eat the right food, and wear the right hairstyle than it is to love mercy and do justice. No wonder so many people have reduced religion to these simple, attainable standards.

the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem "The Mercy