Quotes About Mercy

But remember that forgiveness too is a power.

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it.

Mother, I think. Wherever you may be. Can you hear me? You wanted a women's culture. Well, now there is one. It isn't what you meant, but it exists. Be thankful for small mercies.

What was the guilty thing?" says Anne-Marie. "What's Prospero done that's so terrible?" "Indeed, what?" Felix asks rhetorically. More of the cast have gathered around. "He doesn't tell us. It's one more puzzle in the play. But The Tempest is a play about a man producing a play—one that's come out of his own head, his 'fancies'—so maybe the fault for which he needs to be pardoned is the play itself.

remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville, said Rhett, his mouth twisting. He doesn't care if they all die. The order is out. No exchanges.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?

pray that I may Live to fish Until my dying day And when it comes To my last cast, I then most humbly pray, When in the Lord's Great hanging net And peacefully asleep That in His mercy I be judged— BIG ENOUGH TO KEEP!

You do not know just what you've been forgiven.

If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation

Revenge! No—what good would that do?—it would make him no better, and me no happier.' 'I

I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruellest monsters ever to stalk the earth.

Because the forgiven one was always in the wrong. Forgiven didn't mean forgotten.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.