Quotes About Mercy

The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

You can be genuinely forgiven by God and other people but still suffer the consequences from a particular sin in your life.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

Most of the prophecies explicitly or implicitly incorporate some hope for the nations—for instance, by escaping judgment or finding mercy after judgment.

Love and justice mingle, truth and mercy meet

the call to faithfulness is a call I can answer. Faithful to follow, faithful to confess, faithful to obey, faithful to repent, faithful to believe, faithful to pray and seek God—all these are the requirements of faithfulness. All of them are doable and are, in fact, my responsibility and my joy, having been the unexpected recipient of so great a mercy.

There were four of them, so Will had them seriously outnumbered. He gave them one warning, identifying himself as a King's Ranger, but they chose to attack. Within seconds, three of them were on the ground, nursing arrow wounds to arms and legs. The fourth, his eyes wide with terror, tossed his sword away and fell to his knees, begging for mercy.

Time is compared to golden sands running between two eternities, and 'tis an infinite mercy they are still running, that you have a day to work out your salvation, to agree with your adversary while he is in the way [Matt. 5:25; Phil. 2:12]--namely, to make up the breach between God and your soul (Rev. 2:21).

Parsons pulled the straw near to him, and then said to the spectators, "This is God's armor, and now I am a Christian soldier prepared for battle: I look for no mercy but through the merits of Christ;

The brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

the best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ...

family. Boomer deserves better than a bullet. I don't care what he did, he deserves better than that.

He heard you in the chapel and gave you more time to make things better. Time to say what you needed to say, do what you needed to do. It wasn't a joke! It was divine mercy, and you blew it! You were given what billions of people beg for, and you have the audacity to be angry about it?

May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last!

God forgives and forgets sins, but He never forgets a good deed.

He who was not legalist at any other point, and who was ready without hesitation to pardon prostitutes and disreputable people, was nonetheless extremely strict upon one point: "only one who practices grace can receive grace.

Forgive your neighbor's injustice. Then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. —Ecclesiasticus 28:2

And while on cold, concrete walls, stark shadows of medical teams silently danced their bizarre renditions of mercy, Ingram tread further, dodging heaps that moaned and writhed.

Remember, men. it is better to wound than to slay, since it takes time to carry an injured man to the rear and sometimes requires two of the enemy rather than one.

Y si nos ofenden, ¿no nos vengamos? Si somos como vosotros en lo demás, también nos pareceremos a vosotros en esto. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, El mercader de Venecia

till that it pleased God of his great mercy, in the year of God 1527, to raise up his servand, Maister Patrik Hammyltoun, at whome our Hystorie doith begyn.

having by his fault forfeited his own life, by some act that deserves death; he, to whom he has forfeited it, may (when he has him in his power) delay to take it, and make use of him to his own service, and he does him no injury by it:

When a reporter asked me the next day if I had something to say to the terrorists responsible for the mass murders of the day before, I answered, "We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't.