Quotes About Mercy

Grace isn't about "fair," but about the outrageous, radical love of God.

A softer call, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). A truer call, "What does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8).

These were the red hours of the conflict, hours no man who survived them would forget, even in his sleep, forever after. Fighting thus at arm's length across that parapet, they were caught up in a waking nightmare, although they were mercifully spared the knowledge, at the outset, that it was to last for another sixteen unrelenting hours.

Because our birth mothers made a choice for us that dramatically changed the course of our lives and over which we had no control, many of us have a foundational belief (often unconscious) that we don't have the right to choose our own course in life. We feel instead that we are at the mercy of others.

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

I'm through begging for mercy. No one heeds it when I do anyway. Better I should die on my feet with all the dignity a whore can manage than crawling on my belly like a worthless slave. (Acheron)

A little bloodthirsty, isn't it? (Kim) Given what they did to Tory, I'm thinking a quick death is merciful. Not to mention they ruined one of my favorite jackets and totaled my bike. (Acheron) Well, let's just torture then bomb the bastards. How dare they! (Pam)

Then he will be called Acheron for the River of Woe. Like the river of the Underworld, his journey shall be dark, long and enduring. He will be able to give life and to take it. He will walk through his life alone and abandoned – ever seeking kindness and ever finding cruelty. May the gods have mercy on you, little one. No one else ever will. (Oracle)

May the gods have mercy on whoever pisses them off, because Zarek and Jericho will have none for them. (Madoc) You'd better be glad I'm flattered by that. Otherwise I'd gut you. (Zarek) Ditto. (Jericho)

Forgiveness is the better part of valor. (Acheron) I always thought it was 'discretion.' (Thanatos) Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. (Acheron)

I'm here to clean your house and I won't be merciful while doing it. Fuck with me and you'll be nothing more than your mama's bad memory. (Styxx as Acheron)

I tried to pick Nykyrian's pocket last year. (Jana) And you let him live? (Kiara) I have an age requirement before I kill someone. (Nykyrian)

Let me out of here, Katra. Now. (Sin) I can't. (Kat) Then I hope you can live with the death of humanity on your conscience. I'll just sit myself over here until it's over. You got any good DVDs I can watch? It'll help drown out the screams for mercy. Especially from the kids. Those are always the hardest to ignore. (Sin)

We do not repay mercy with murder. Kindness grows kindness, and you will reap the harvest of whatever seeds you sow.

What are you? Weak? Don't tell me you want me to spare this pathetic animal when it wouldn't show you any such mercy. Believe me, it's better to take the head off a cobra before the cobra strikes you. (Xypher) A cobra can't help what it is. Why should you punish it because it's doing what the gods created it to do? (Kat)

How do you know that? (Stryker) I know everything. I feel every heartbeat in the universe. Hear every scream for mercy and feel every tear of pain. (Jared)

I am not a god of forgiveness. (Acheron)

I won't forgive I won't forget. Let hell open and rain my wrath down on them all. I will not be stopped and I have no mercy left inside me. I am death and I revel in the killings of my enemies. Bring me them all until I'm drunk on their blood.

La clemencia es la mayor demostración de valentía.

May the gods show their mercy... The Alexion would not.

The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world.

Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.

A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct- Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he's take over the world- my life, if I let him. Mercy

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.