Quotes About Mercy

I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.

If God had not grievance to all, we will not have survived up to the time we repented

The former time is the time of gloom and darkness, but the later time is a time of the redemption and the mercy of God

Sometimes due to God's mercy, the time in God's plan can be stretched or extended

The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

Why would forgiveness be of any value if it were reserved only for forgivable offenses?

Once I told Ha?anala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained with God for the lives of ten righteous men who might have lived there. She said to me, ?Abraham should have taken the babies from the cities. The babies were innocent.?

One thing I can say for certain. There?'s just no telling whom God will take a liking to.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you.

I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. But my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. I

God blesses all things, she thought, and he will also bless me. Much wrong have I done, but love pure and disinterested is in my heart, and I shall be repaid.

I could not consent to the death of any human being; but certainly I should have thought such a creature unfit to remain in the society of men.

When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying.

Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? … They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which make their sufferings so especially touching. Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God…. There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.21

It is our fellow creatures' lot in the universe, the place assigned them in creation, to be completely at our mercy, the fiercest wolf or tiger defenseless against the most cowardly man.

There is something so very dreadful, so satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power. -Cardinal John Henry Newman

There is something so very dreadful, so satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.' -Cardinal John Henry Newman

As Theodore Roosevelt observed in his safari diary, Death by cold, death by starvation - these are the normal endings of the stately and beautiful creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness. The problem with this outlook is that is obscures our own singular capacity to make choices, for good or evil.... it sees in nature's violence an invitation to compound nature's violence.