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Quotes About Mercy

Only by God's mercy and grace. We aren't worthy, we're all sinners, but we are because of Jesus dying for us.
~ Philip Rivers
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
~ William Gurnall
Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
~ David Wilkerson
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
~ Pope Francis
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.
~ Saint Bernard
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
~ William E. Simon
Take care of yourself and beware high connections with bastards, because when the revolution comes there won't be mercy for toadying ass-lickers.
~ Gregory Maguire
Suicide! But, if it is the strength of those who no longer have anything, it is the hope of all those who no longer believe, is the sublime value of the vanquished! Yeah, there's a door at least in this life, we can always open it and move on to the other side. The nature has had a movement of mercy; we have not been imprisoned. Thank you on behalf of the desperate!
~ Guy de Maupassant
We aren't the best men, but Lord, have pity on us," Henríquez begins. It's a simple statement, but it strikes several of the men hard.
~ Hector Tobar
I am as nobly born as you, he said proudly to Claudius. I had men and horses, lands and great riches. Was it wonderful that I wished to keep them? You fight to gain possession of the whole world and make all men your slaves, but I fought for my own land and for freedom. Kill me now and people will think little of you: but if you grant me my life, all men will know that you are not only powerful but merciful. Instead
~ H.E. Marshall
May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
If heaven is merciful, it will some day efface from my consciousness the sight that I saw, and let me live my last years in peace.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Ultimate horror often paralyzes memory in a merciful way.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
A coisa mais misericordiosa do mundo é, segundo penso, a incapacidade da mente humana em correlacionar tudo o que sabe. Vivemos em uma plácida ilha de ignorância em meio a mares negros de infinitude, e não fomos feitos para ir longe.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Bellek baz? an?lar? unutmakla, bazen çok merhamet gösterir.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
There is nothing so merciless as mankind. How can we justify ourselves, especially to the dumb animals around us? But the first days are always the worst, and there is much comfort in the thought that time effaces everything, crime and sorrow no less than love.
~ Halldór Kiljan Laxness
Sin - sin is God's most precious gift.
~ Halldor Laxness
One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Justice, but not mercy, is a matter of judgment
~ Hannah Arendt
Christ came into the world to save sinners, not good people, and your unworthiness is your greatest claim for His salvation.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
It is not because things are good that we are to thank the Lord, but because He is good.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith