Quotes About Mercy

Principal Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

Cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from ye door.

Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.

But in the economy of grace, all of us are the worker who has only worked one hour, with

O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy for us, I trust in you.

For by grace are you saved through faith…" (Ephesians 2:8).

The heavens are not humane, but I'd forgotten compassion and love.

and, by the merits of the Mother of Mercy, he did himself conceive and give birth unto the spirit of Gospel truth.

His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail. Atticus had urged them to accept the state's generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with jackass.

Are we not growing sensibly more merciful, more wisely humane towards empirics themselves, when they cease to be our oracles ? Are we not learning, from their jumbled discoveries and failures, that empiricism itself is a social function

God is helpless. We are at the mercy of our own radical freedom, and all God can do is take into God's self the grief, the violence, the sublime acts of kindness, the good sex. God comes to us from the future, and has only one godlike gift: the lure. We are lured toward truth, beauty, and goodness . . . the lure is pulling at our hearts like some lucid joy inside every actual occasion and all we have to do is . . . Say yes.

Don't forget to rest in the kindnesses He pours out on you—whether you feel deserving or not. You are His child. He loves you.

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

God will pardon me..that's His line of work. last words of Heinrich Heine

Gott wird mir verzeihen, das ist sein Beruf.

One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

I am not vindictive, but very forgiving. Despite being wronged, I never took revenge on anyone.

The Way Of The Fist' is not quite a Shakespearian depiction of anger and revenge. This song was more my way of releasing all the pent up aggression I felt against some people who wronged me beyond the point of any kind of forgiveness or mercy.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.