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Quotes About Mercy

Early in the morning, a peasant, who was passing by, saw what had happened. He broke the ice in pieces with his wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. The warmth revived the poor
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Death sucks. Death sucks, mostly because it forces those who stay behind to survive. Death isn't merciful enough to take you too. Instead, death constantly jams down your throat the awful lesson that life does indeed go on, no matter what.
~ Harlan Coben
It was one lesson he never forgot. You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted. And you don't act like the goverment with their proportional responses and all that nonsense. If someone hurts you, mercy and pity must be put aside. You eliminate the enemy. You scorch the earth.
~ Harlan Coben
They expect a certain amount of leniency or mercy from me because I'm a woman, and if you've ever met my mother, you should know that's not even in the cards. She's much tougher than I am - she's a retired schoolteacher, so she's seen it all.
~ Loretta Lynch
Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
~ Anne Lamott
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
~ Lawrence G. Lovasik
Do not make judgments, and you will travel no quicker road to the forgiveness of your sins. 'Judge not, so that you may not be judged' (Lk. 6:37).
~ John Climacus
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
~ Saadi
Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we will spread death and mercy.
~ Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.
~ Daniel Boone
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God.
~ Gemma Galgani
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
~ Saint Augustine
I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
~ Saint Stephen
Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.
~ Mary Faustina Kowalska
Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence our protector, whom or what shall we fear?
~ Jeremiah Denton
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!
~ Robert Burns
Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
~ Rick Warren
The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.
~ Bill Vaughan
Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.
~ Alexander MacLaren
Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.
~ Roger Zelazny
Learn to always trust God in all situation, learn to forgive those who wrong u in order to receive your daily bread from God
~ Idowu Ayodeji
The doctrines of grace stand or fall together, and together they point to one central truth: salvation is all of grace because it is all of God; and because it is all of God, it is all for His glory.
~ James Montgomery Boice