Quotes About Mercy

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

He made you you—on purpose. You are the only you—ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves. He looks at us with pleasure and with mercy, and he wants us to look at ourselves with pleasure and mercy too!

What a mercy, I thought, that the crippled, the maimed, those whom Fate has cheated, at least in sleep have no knowledge of the shapeliness or unshapeliness of their bodies

pity is a double-edged weapon. If you don't know how to handle it you had better not touch it, and above all you must steel your heart against it. Pity, like morphine, does the sick good only at first. It is a means of helping them feel better, but if you don't get the dose right and know where to stop it becomes a murderous poison.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

There can be no mercy without truth.

Truth without compassion is Cruelty.

What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never separable in Catholic pastoral life.

Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth...these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.

We can not begin to administer justice without understanding the concept of truth and mercy.

Dear God, Thank you for waking me up today and for your everlasting love and never ending mercy and for my blessed day ahead.

Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

It's not a matter of wanting it or not, it's a matter of what you think you can accomplish. When the hunter goes out in the rain forest to seek food for his family, does he expect to control nature? No. He imagines that nature is beyond him. Beyond his understanding. Beyond his control. Maybe he prays to nature, to the fertility of the forest that provides for him. He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

she was struck by how private American forces of mercy were straining to offset America's public agents of cruelty.

There was certainly much to be said for being at the mercy of the primeval elements, to be swept along by circumstances one could not in any way control, but it was good to return, to feel one's identity expand again, unchecked.

During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed. So our job becomes to keep peace with enemy camps, eliminate the chaos at the end of Jacobean tragedies, and with 'the mercy of distance' write the histories.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.

I am a big sinner.

It is healthy to say, 'Yes, I am a sinner,' and to recognise that this should lead us to turn to God full of confidence in his love and mercy.